James Forsyth James Forsyth

Unopposed: why is Keir Starmer making life so easy for the PM?

issue 20 March 2021

If there is one thing worse than being talked about, it is not being talked about — and this is the fate beginning to befall Keir Starmer. He is at risk of becoming an irrelevance.

After not even a year of being Labour leader, Starmer finds his personal ratings on the slide: a YouGov poll this week showed his rating at minus 13, down from plus 22 last summer.

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