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Political favourability ratings, May 2025: Keir Starmer falls to lowest net favourability rating on record, while positivity towards Nigel Farage and Reform UK rises (yougov.co.uk)

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Astonishingly awful polling for Starmer, who has destroyed his favourability among everyone especially his own voters, while somehow making Farage more popular. If I was Morgan McSweeney, I would quit my job.

Some other 'highlights':

'This is the first time Keir Starmer has recorded a net negative approval rating among Labour voters.'

Labour is now even more unpopular than the lowest point of Corbyn's leadership.

EDIT:

Just so I can say 'I told you so', if:

There isn't an all-out war in Europe, and,
Starmer's still PM at the next GE

Then he will lose his own seat.

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[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He rode to power on the back of not being from the party behind the least popular government in fucking ages (after 14 years of disaster). He made lots of promises to appeal to the essentially left-wing party that he's the leader of. In any case, he wound up with a landslide parliamentary majority off the back of around a third of the actual vote.

Since then he's put Wes Streeting in charge of the NHS and McSweeney in charge of strategy, and has chased the racist vote that's stoked up by Nige "Brexit" Farage.

So he's triangulating right to chase the votes of people who can't stand him and will never vote for him, and in the space of a month has lost 34 approval points from actual Labour voters to wind up with a net -5 approval or something like that.

What's odd is that I know people who've met him and worked with him personally, and they are all largely of the belief that he's a man of deep principle. Which just goes to show his talent, because he's hiding it incredibly well at the moment.