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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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[–] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If our next PM has a spouse with russian heritage and half the family lives in russia, and this PM then starts massively funding and politically supporting the russian invasion of Ukraine while imprisoning pro-Ukraine reporters and protestors... would you also claim the PM having russian family and close ties to russia, is completely irrelevant to their pro-russia motives?

[–] SleafordMod@feddit.uk 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't think their family would be relevant in that case. If the next PM did start supporting Russia then I would criticise them for that decision, regardless of whether family connections influenced their decision or not.

Anyway. Like I say, we don't seem to know whether Starmer's wife even has Israeli citizenship. I definitely think it would be wrong to assume she does just because she's Jewish.

But even if Starmer's wife does have Israeli citizenship, that doesn't necessarily make Starmer pro-Israel. He might be too pro-Israel, but a hypothetical Israeli wife wouldn't necessarily make him pro-Israel.