{"id":2022,"date":"2020-07-28T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2020-08-13T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T11:40:39","slug":"why-are-boris-johnsons-conservatives-still-enjoying-their-strongest-run-in-the-polls-since-thatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/07\/28\/why-are-boris-johnsons-conservatives-still-enjoying-their-strongest-run-in-the-polls-since-thatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Boris Johnson&#8217;s Conservatives still enjoying their strongest run in the polls since Thatcher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest piece for <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2020\/07\/why-boris-johnson-just-keeps-on-winning\/\">UnHerd, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/512\/goodwin-matthew\">Professor Matthew Goodwin<\/a> discusses why Boris Johnson&#8217;s Conservatives are still enjoying their strongest run in the polls since Thatcher? And why is the left struggling to connect? Suggesting that many voters are fed up with &#8220;declinism&#8221; and the new &#8220;culture of repudiation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest piece for UnHerd, Professor Matthew Goodwin discusses why Boris Johnson&#8217;s Conservatives are still enjoying their strongest run in the polls since Thatcher? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/07\/28\/why-are-boris-johnsons-conservatives-still-enjoying-their-strongest-run-in-the-polls-since-thatcher\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}