Another day, another bit of bad news for Sir Keir Starmer. A new Ipsos poll carried out between 27 November and 4 December has revealed that dissatisfaction with the Labour leader has reached a staggering 61 per cent – his worst rating as leader of the lefty lot. Good heavens…
It’s not just Sir Keir struggling with unpopularity – overall unhappiness with the Labour government remains rather high too, with a whopping 70 per cent of Brits registering their dissatisfaction with the party in charge. And voters are feeling rather bleak about the future too, with two thirds of poll participants admitting they expect the economy to get worse over the next year – the worst result on this marker since the end of 2022, just months after former Tory PM Liz Truss tendered her resignation. Crikey.
Just over a quarter of Brits are satisfied by the performance of the current Prime Minister, leaving the lefty leader with an overall satisfaction score of, er, -34. Support for Sir Keir tends to be a little higher among Labour voters, with 54 per cent of those polled insisting they were satisfied with Starmer’s time in the top job so far. Yet almost four in ten Labour voters are disappointed by the party leader’s performance and among this lefty lot, the government has a net rating of -1.
In fact, Starmer’s ratings are worse than those of his predecessors at the same point in power – with Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson scoring -22 and -20 respectively after five months in office. Talk about a bad start to the job, eh?
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