Boris Johnson has a woman problem. No, not the rascally lady-killer stuff he probably loves people talking about. This problem is that female voters don’t like him. A YouGov poll shows that, while men give him a net favourability of -17, with women he scores lower with -25. Even Tory female Leavers aren’t as keen on Johnson as the Conservative Leave men.
This isn’t about women disapproving of Johnson’s personal life. A 2018 Survation poll revealed that people didn’t care that Johnson was getting divorced, but they would still be less likely to vote for the Conservatives if he were leader, debunking the myth that only prudes and killjoys object to him. Similarly, the new poll doesn’t mean that women are having a fit of the vapours over Johnson’s personal life, however revealing it is for a grown man to drunkenly shout and swear at his much younger partner.
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