When it rains, it pours for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot. The polls have gone downhill since Starmer’s army got into power, and the latest More In Common survey is no exception. In the newest survey of Westminster voting intention, it now transpires that the Tories have a two-point lead over Starmer’s lefty bunch – whose time in office seems to be going from bad to worse.
In good news for new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, approximately a third of Brits say they would back her party in a general election – the highest rating the Tories have seen since February – while just over a quarter would throw their weight behind Sir Keir’s crowd. And the victor of the Tory leadership race won’t be the only one celebrating today’s polling: Nigel Farage’s party come in at third place, with around a fifth of those polled saying they would support Reform UK. Meanwhile it appears Sir Ed Davey’s election stunts didn’t hold up his party’s popularity for long, with the Lib Dems sitting in a distance fourth place on 11 per cent, down three points since the last survey.
His party is experiencing a rough ride in the polls and the Prime Minister himself isn't faring much better. Only a fortnight ago, Mr S wrote on how Sir Keir had suffered the worst approval rating plunge of any new PM in modern times, with a More In Common survey showing how Starmer's approval rating had fallen almost 50 points, from a post-election high of +11 in July to -38 in October. Oh dear…
The PM's first 100 days were filled with freebie fiascos and cronyism rows and since the Budget, Starmer's army has also come under pressure from the hospitality sector, family farmers and small business owners. Talk about having your work cut out, eh?
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