According to a survey conducted for the Daily Mail, voters largely support Liz Truss’ proposal to freeze energy costs for households and companies.
Nine out of ten individuals supported a limit for consumers, while 79% supported a similar measure for struggling enterprises.
Two-thirds of people support the new Prime Minister’s proposal to drop the 1.25 percentage point national insurance increase, according to the poll.
Miss Truss unveiled a two-year strategy on Thursday to protect businesses and people from devastating energy price hikes.
The majority of voters support Liz Truss’ proposal to freeze energy costs for households and companies. Nine out of ten individuals supported a limit for consumers, while 79% approved a similar measure for struggling enterprises.
Starting in October, the typical family will spend no more than £2,500 year for energy, saving around £1,000 in the process.
Businesses will benefit from a six-month program that provides comparable assistance.
Voters backed her initiative to eliminate green fees on household energy bills by a margin of 7 to 10. Only 6% of people were against the change.
The Savanta ComRes poll, which surveyed 2,098 UK adults, indicated that 53% of respondents supported Miss Truss’s proposal to scrap the proposed rise in corporate tax for the next year.
According to the study, with 93% of respondents indicating it was a critical issue for them, the government’s reaction to the cost of living problem would have the most impact on how people vote in the next general election.
This was closely followed by the condition of the NHS (92%), taxation policies (85%), and the attitude to the situation in Ukraine (81 per cent).
A majority of voters said the new Prime Minister should call a snap election by the end of the year, with 55 per cent calling for the country to go to the polls compared with 32 per cent opposing the idea. Among Tory voters, however, almost three in five said a general election should not be called.
In welcome news for Labour, the poll found that 72 per cent of voters – including three-quarters of Conservative voters – support imposing a further windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has for months been calling for the tax to fund cost of living support, and has accused Miss Truss of forcing working people to foot the bill instead.
The poll put Labour seven points ahead of the Tories, with the Opposition on 42 points and the Conservatives on 35.
And Sir Keir was narrowly ahead of Miss Truss – 36 per cent to 33 per cent – when voters were asked who would make the best prime minister. Fifty-six per cent of Tory voters said the committee investigating Boris Johnson over Partygate should not continue.
The Privileges Committee is investigating whether the former PM was in contempt of Parliament by telling the Commons on several occasions that there were no lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street.
The poll also suggested that Miss Truss’s pledge to continue with plans to send migrants to Rwanda is popular with Tory voters.
Two-thirds – 67 per cent – of Conservative supporters said they supported the policy, while almost half (47 per cent) of Labour voters said they opposed it. Overall, the policy has a net support of 47 per cent – while 29 per cent oppose it, according to the poll.