Public anger over petrol crisis threatens to overshadow Conservative conference

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : More than half of Britons think Boris Johnson has done a bad job of ensuring supplies of essentials like petrol and keeping the cost of living down in the wake of Brexit, according to a new poll.
62% : He promised "decisive action on more jobs, more police and supporting health and social care" as well as on levelling up disadvantaged areas of the country.
58% : Sir Roger said there was anger among Tory voters at the "tardy" response of Downing Street to the predictable problem of labour shortages after Brexit, which was not only affecting the haulage industry but also sectors like care work and farm work, meaning that crops had been left rotting in the fields.
45% : The survey, which also found the public giving a thumbs-down to the prime minister's performance on Brexit and on "levelling up", comes on the eve of a crucial Conservative conference at which Mr Johnson will attempt to recast the central purpose of his government after two years of crisis management with an optimistic "building back better" slogan.

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