According to a piece by Peter Kellner on YouGov's website, the honeymoon is over for the Coalition. He deduces this by contrasting the vertiginous decline in the Coalition's approval ratings since it was elected with the much more modest dip in New Labour's approval ratings at a comparable point in 1997.
Shortly after Blair was swept to victory, 76% approved of his Government while 13% disapproved. That's a net rating of plus 63. Four months later, the net rating was still plus 54 and after a year it stood at 32. "Apart from a blip in March 1998, the net rating did not fall into single figures until September 1999, more than two years into Blair’s first term," he writes. (To read more, click here.)
