A report from the Nuffield College Elections Unit suggests that the Government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has undermined its support among voters: http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/media/4388/covidattitudesreport.pdf
As of June 2020, the Government had lost the support of a quarter of its December 2019 voters, who had mainly switched to ‘undecided’. Conservative losses were greater among the party’s new voters.
Conservative losses, coming so soon after an historic electoral win, were primarily due to perceptions that the government had not tackled the pandemic competently, rather than because of ideological positions on the appropriateness of a full-scale national lockdown. A third of new 2019 Conservative voters thought the government had handled the crisis badly, whereas this figure was only around a fifth for those voters who voted Conservative in both 2017 and 2019.
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