When it rains for Sir Keir, it pours. It now transpires that the Labour leader has achieved a worse rating as Prime Minister than all of his recent predecessors – bar Liz Truss, who didn’t manage to last quite as long in the top job. It seems for Keir Starmer, things can only get, er, worse…
New polling by YouGov collected between 19-21 October from over 1,600 adults shows that little more than a quarter of Brits believe the current PM is doing well in post, while almost two-thirds of the population think Starmer is performing badly. It’s in stark contrast to the ratings of the last Labour prime minister Gordon Brown – with two-thirds of UK voters believing the politician was doing a good job in office just over three months into the job, and less than a third thinking Brown was doing badly. How the tables turn…
Tory prime minister David Cameron was on par with Brown's levels of popularity at the same point into the role, with just under half of Brits backing Theresa May's efforts. Only 40 per cent of the public thought Boris Johnson was doing a good job after the 100-day mark – while 49 per cent rated the former Conservative PM poorly. And despite Rishi Sunak's overwhelmingly negative ratings at the same stage of the job – with over half of the population insistent he had done a bad job while just 29 per cent supported him – the latest Tory PM still beat Sir Keir's rather miserable rating.
The survey comes after weeks of scandal for the lefty lot, with the cronyism row, a freebie fiasco and the resignation of Sir Keir's former chief of staff generating a host of unhappy headlines for the new Labour government. Now the issue dogging Starmer's army is the feud with Donald Trump's presidential campaign group – after Labour activists jetted off to the states to canvas for Kamala. Reform's Nigel Farage has even waded into the latest scandal, slamming the move as 'ludicrous' after Donald Trump’s campaign team complained about the matter to the Federal Election Commission. Talk about a bad start to the job, eh?
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