Usually when a broadcaster airs vox pops on politics, they endeavour to make sure that the samples offer a balanced display of public opinion. But when Sophy Ridge took to the streets of Edinburgh for Sky News earlier this month to survey local opinion on Boris Johnson, there was little in the way of variety on offer.
The comments from members of the public ranged from a Johnson premiership looking “quite scary” to being “incredibly divisive”. The highest praise was from a woman who thought he would “get us through Brexit” – before adding that she thought he was a “bit of a clown” generally. As Ridge summed up: “I’ll be honest, here in Edinburgh, it’s been hard to find anyone with a good word to say about Boris Johnson.” Perhaps that’s unsurprising when Johnson has a negative net approval rating of minus 37 in Scotland – the Brexit party’s Nigel Farage is more popular, on a mere minus 24. That same Panelbase survey found that more than half of Scottish voters could back independence if Johnson became prime minister.
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