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The sitting Prime Minister enjoys a substantial lead (50-31) over the opposition leader when the electorate are asked who the best PM would be.
Not now of course – this is from a week before the 1979 general election when Margaret Thatcher was trailing Callaghan by nearly twenty points in the leadership ratings. Surely this news destroyed her campaign? Showed she couldn’t win?
Whatever happened to Margaret Thatcher eh…?
(h/t @progpoll)
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