about 1 month ago . SIR Keir Starmer has seen his ranking plunge in the polls after a terrible fortnight of bungles. As popular anger mounts, Starmers lack of vision for a sustainable future risks plunging parliamentary politics into even deeper crisis. Starmer is said to have become increasingly comfortable in these settings over the past 12 months as his status as prime minister-in-waiting Labour is consistently polling 20 points ahead of the Tories is further entrenched. Political Monitor. Voiced by artificial intelligence. Indeed, Labours biggest backer, the union Unite, has reduced its contributions to the party in retaliation for Starmers efforts to shift away from the socialist policies of Corbyn. No one was ever charged with any wrongdoing. Sir Keir took over his party's leadership from Jeremy Corbyn in April last year, and by September the party was ahead of the Conservatives in some polls for the first time since Mr Johnson became prime minister. The prominent involvement of Labour MP Zarah Sultana, a Corbyn supporter, suggests the depth of frustration in growing sections of the party at the direction Starmer has taken. Some 39% of people see the Labour leader as the more effective PM according to the poll, which was commissioned by the Evening Standard. GBNEWS. Cubus Follow. After the loss of Hartlepool in a by-election in May and a clash with Angela Rayner, the deputy Labour leader, over the reshuffle that followed, he and his party seemed to suffer a crisis of confidence. For years, we shocked people with Corbyn as leader in the worst way possible and we now need to shock them in positive ways, the shadow Cabinet minister quoted earlier said. He also had the shameless Johnson and the Faragiste Tory press bursting to make trouble. Each pollster uses the following wording for this question: Some pollsters conduct surveys to compare figures who are not both party leaders. Another shadow cabinet minister agreed. Support for the Labour Party has grown in the aftermath of the Autumn Statement, a new poll reveals today.Aaron Chown. In GB as a whole, the Governments net approval rating for its handling of these three issues now sits at -35% (down four points from late January), -49% (-7), and -39% (-3) respectively. Jacob Rees-Mogg has joined in with the chorus of Tories trying to undermine Sue Gray 's report, after her new appointment as Keir Starmer's chief of staff - but his own words have now come . Starmer has sacked one shadow minister, Sam Tarry, the partner of Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner, after Tarry declared that every worker should get a pay rise in line with inflation. Woman with cerebral palsy jailed after waving 77-year-old cyclist i Sadiq Khan sparks outrage after branding Britons' concerns about Ul Andrew Tate says he's 'seriously ill' as he seeks permission to lea Hunt set for last minute change to energy price cap which will save Britons hundreds of pounds. The battered economy, on which Starmer focused almost all his questions to Sunak in the Commons yesterday, remains far and away the central battleground of electoral politics for the foreseeable future. The more he engages with people from the City, the more he feels comfortable with the vocabulary and the issues, a department head at an investment bank said. These polls asked the opinions of British voters, not specifically Scottish voters. The Windsor Framework "gives enough" to end the Stormont stalemate, Sir Keir Starmer believes. This was a fall of six points, while Mr Johnson saw his popularity climb by eight points to 40%. Anybody with leadership experience will think this screams competence. A survey of party members in March this year found that Tony Blair was just as popular with them as Jeremy Corbyn. Our one rule for them framing is paying off, said the source, with Johnson proving it to be true time and again. The Labour leader grilled the Prime Minister on housebuilding, calling on him to "bring back . Labours biggest donor, Unite, has reduced its contributions to fund grassroots initiatives Starmers Labour has abandoned. Commenting on the poll, a nationally representative survey of British adults by British Polling Council (BPC) member People Polling, Professor Matt Goodwin said: Both these numbers and the polls more broadly suggest that the Conservative Partys limited recovery that has been visible in the polls in recent weeks may have stalled. But Levys comeback is not free of controversy. His team say Starmers main task has been repairing the partys internal workings after the strife during Jeremy Corbyns leadership. A People Polling poll for GB News, conducted on February . That has included reneging on his commitment to take back into public ownership key utilities, including gas and electricity. In some ways, the content of the protocol deal was the relatively straightforward bit. He is not. A moderate Labour MP said we cant be shy about raising money from private individuals, especially if they want to win big at the next election. Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves have met hundreds of executives over the past year in what has been called the salmon and scrambled eggs offensive a riff on Blair and his own Chancellor Gordon Browns so-called prawn cocktail offensive of the 1990s. These could include a comparison of leading politicians within the same party (to gauge support for future leadership contests), or compare the current leader of one party to an alternative leader of a second. It is something Blair spoke about a lot, not having the first idea what he was doing when he got through the door. What it shows is that these guys think Keir is going to win. The following polls asked about voters' opinions on Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition since April 2020. This week, though, has provided a reminder of two important things that deserve to be noted by political observers. And finally, it worked. Boris Johnson has been greedily eyeing a return. Sir Keir's office declined to comment, saying it did not offer 'running commentaries' on opinion polls. Most voters in Britain dont have Europe or Northern Ireland on their minds anyway. Updated on 2 March 2023 at 8:00. A return to power-sharing at Stormont, with the DUP playing second fiddle to Sinn Fin, is a long way off. Given all of this, it would be simply astonishing if Starmer werent leading in the polls. He seems to have taken as his starting point an assumption - shared by the establishment media - that the antagonism engineered by the Thatcher government through the 1980s towards trade unions and industrial action still holds 40 years later. At various dates in the run up to the next United Kingdom general election, various organisations have carried out opinion polling to gauge the opinions that voters hold towards political leaders. Keir Starmer has been urged to intervene in the selection process for a Labour target "red wall" seat, after a leading candidate who had the support of eight trade unions was blocked from . For one thing, the protocol deal may stumble. One month ago he was on -3 in the equivalent BMG poll and in June the number of people who were satisfied was the same as those dissatisfied. The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye. It would be foolish to ignore them. A YouGov poll carried out this week showed 45% of the public were against the RMT strike, with 37% in favour. Labour holds a 10-point lead over the Conservatives as Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak attack each other in public but Sir Keir Starmers personal ratings have gone backwards. In an interview with the New Statesman last month, Tarry offered a damning assessment of the Labour leader, accusing him of tearing the party apart to erase any trace of Corbynism, despite his predecessor taking the party in 2017 to within an inch of an election victory. Boris Johnson makes a better prime minister than Keir Starmer would despite Partygate, the cost of living crisis and the confidence vote in Johnson held by his MPs . Around the middle of the year, however, the tide started to turn. The non-Corbynite majority of Labour MPs didnt have an alternative candidate either; hence their mood of gloom and fatalism. Major new Labour donor David Sainsbury gave more than 2 million at the end of last year, the latest figures confirm, after fleeing during the Corbyn years. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Starmer has refused to cash in on the most visible sign of growing public discontent at Tory policies that continue to redistribute wealth upwards. It is still more likely that Sunak will oversee the end of a long period of Conservative government than its renewal. For many, he is also indelibly linked to other New Labour cash scandals, including a rowover a watered-down advertising banfor Formula 1 just after F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone gave millions to the party. For similar reasons, the Enough is Enough movement has recently emerged, demanding pay rises for workers and higher taxes for the rich. Businesses arent altruists giving us all this money means that they will tend to want more movement towards the interests of business., Mandelson, meanwhile, told POLITICO Labour needs many more individual donors to compensate for the sums currently being withheld by hard-left controlled unions.. While Starmer is seen as more austere, he has embraced the former PMs party financing strategy. Politics. But other Starmer allies dismissed the findings, claiming it was difficult to draw . She has managed the difficult feat of appearing to be both opportunistic and a political ideologue for big business who lacks the popular touch. In March, Boris Johnson's net approval rating rose to +3, meaning that the PM now has a better net approval rating than Keir Starmer for the first time since April 2020. Andrew Fisher, Corbyns former director of policy, said Starmers preference for private donations may backfire. Different polling companies report widely differing figures on this question, but even Savanta ComRes, long the least favourable to Starmer, now has him two points ahead of Johnson when people are asked: Which of the following do you think would make the best prime minister? Starmer on 33 per cent and Johnson on 31 per cent are both eclipsed by dont know on 36 per cent, but politics is a game of relative advantage. Sunak has had luck along the way. Blair and others involved have always claimed there was no connection between the two events. Millionaires clearly want different policy priorities, but it matters to public opinion who is influencing the people who are supposed to be working in our interests?. On the proposal to reduce the threshold at which people pay the highest rate of tax from 150,000 to 125,140, the poll found that 50% of adults support this measure while 13% are opposed. Amid all that, Sunak didnt cower in the bunker. The Labour Party has a 29 point poll lead over the Tories, according to a new survey which has provided a fresh boost to Sir Keir Starmer. The following polls asked about voters' opinions on Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK, formerly named Brexit Party, until 6 March 2021. Labour ahead of Tories by two points, but Labours leader failing to make a personal breakthrough. Some 75% approve of the government's handling of the vaccine rollout. Estimated Reading Time: 3-5 minutes. In a similar vein, Starmer has strictly distanced Labour from the spate of strikes breaking out as workers struggle with escalating costs, despite earlier committing towork shoulder to shoulder with the unions to stand up for working people, tackle insecure work and low pay Oppose Tory attacks on the right to take industrial action and the weakening of workplace rights., While Starmer has agreed, when pressed, that workers have a right to strike in principle, his office has condemned strikes, like the rail unions, when they actually take place. After three years of near-destitution brought on by COVID-19, falling membership numbers and reduced union funding the party is now beginning to look cashed-up. Hence some of the changes to the leaders office which he has made since then. Latest news, analysis and comment on migration in Europe and beyond. But among Labour voters, 65% were in favour, and 18% opposed. Meanwhile, Sunak continues to trail Keir Starmer in most of the country on the question of which would be the better Prime Minister at this moment. His website and blog can be found at www.jonathan-cook.net. Correlations identify things people with a positive opinion of Keir Starmer are more likely to rate positively than the . Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. For Sunak personally, his approval rating, despite some fluctuations, ends February more or less where it was at the end of January. Starmer, he said, was making catastrophic errors, creating a punch-up with our own side. Despite the prime ministers problems, from the fall of Kabul to the defence of Owen Paterson, the myth of his personal invincibility seemed to persist. Explore the latest YouGov polling, survey results and articles about Keir Starmer. Survey shows the party was associated with support of politically correct issues. LONDON (Reuters) -Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, has picked as his new chief of staff Sue Gray, a government official whose investigation helped catalyse the exit . But he has gone further, accepting neoliberal orthodoxy that concessions to workers hinder business and damage economic activity. Keir Starmer was rewarded for his "strategic patience", according to an ally, when . The following polls asked about voters' opinions on Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the Labour Party until 4 April 2020. While 28% think Johnson would make the best prime minister, 26% opted for Starmer. Johnsons poor approval ratings have improved slightly at -27, compared with -30 two weeks ago. Sir Keir had started to close the gap in April, pollsters Opimium said, but in a survey held on 13 and 14 May, he garnered just 23% support as preferred prime minister. Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer at the Platinum Pageant for the Queen in London. LONDON Keir Starmer wants big business to mold Labours election plans and get its fingerprints on his policy agenda. Rishi Sunak is shaping up to be a prime minister Keir Starmer should be wary of. Overall, more than half the country, 54%, say they do not know who to back on the economy or would rather not say. Some Blairites believe Labours most electorally successful leader must be officially welcomed back into the tent to show the public how serious the party is about winning. Keir Starmers wait-it-out approach may finally be beginning to pay dividends, two and a half years after he was elected Labour leader. Changes of this kind are not like electoral on-off switches. Although his net approval fell to -22% nationally on 18 February, his lowest ever, he ends the month having gained a marginal point from his January rating in both the Red Wall and in Great Britain (up to -17% in both). Latest UK Opinion Polls: Government approval recent changes. Starmer is determined to beat the Tories at their own game, vowing to fight the election on economic growth. More broadly, this will be central to boosting the nations productivity going forward. The rail strikes are the biggest in decades. Opinion comes closest regarding having a lot of . Only England and Wales jurisdiction apply in all legal matters. Speaking alongside Blair-era Minister Peter Mandelson at a business roundtable in late January, Starmer said he wanted to extract as much as I can from you, have a really grown-up conversation, and also for you to see that it is possible to mold, have your fingerprints on what were doing, two people presenttold POLITICO. Starmers hope was that the public would eventually tire of the glaring cronyism and corruption of a ruling party that has been 12 years in power. , Bloomberg. Labour extended its lead nationally to 27%, the widest margin it has held since Sunak became PM in October, while also opening up a lead of 28% in the Red Wall (another record lead . Government approval on all three issues has risen in the Red Wall, recovering from a particularly bad poll in late January to now stand at -27% on the economy (+14), -41% on the NHS (+13), and -40% on immigration (+7). Recent polls also suggest the party has a clear double-digit lead in the 23 June byelection in Wakefield, the type of seat it will need to win back if it hopes to win a majority or form the government at the next election. I want our volunteers and staff to have the best pamphlets and resources and information possible, they said. To me, Starmer is hyper-competent as a manager and organiser. A government of which he was part had created the whole problem in the first place, of course, and one should never tire of saying so. Middle East Eye. "The Labour leader has taken a significant fall across all metrics in the last two weeks, particularly being a strong leader, looking like a prime minister in waiting, and being able to get things done. UK ; About ; For business . Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, speaks at the National Farmers' Union (NFU) conference in Birmingham, UK, on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. It was a key insight to recognise that the DUP had overreached itself at the expense of the UKs wider economic and political interests, and was therefore in a weaker position than many assumed. Although they remain neck-and-neck on 38% each in the traditionally Conservative-voting Blue Wall, Starmer has opened up a lead of 7% in the Red Wall constituencies (three points lower than the 10-point margin he held at the end of January) and a 9% lead across the whole of Great Britain (three points more than at the end of January). Nevertheless, this week highlighted some early if incomplete signs that Sunak is starting to change the Tory party. The DUP was not allowed to hijack the launch and mobilise the European Research Group. Public Sector. He helped Labour raise 100 million from 1994 to 2007, before leaving when Blair resigned and he still has deep links to Britains private sector. Starmers office had not responded before publication of this article to a request for comment from Middle East Eye. . Starmer had begun the year in a strong position, ready for the next leg of the long march up Labours electoral mountain. Like the Tories, Starmer sees the economy in terms of a battle between the incompatible demands of employers - the state and big business - on one side, and workers on the other. This is especially true for Labour voters, more than half of whom blame Truss (44%) or Sunak (10%) for the current crisis while only 11% blame global events. Sunak sets out Northern Ireland trade deal to MPs as Labour vow to back agreement as it happened, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Sorting the protocol was a sensible bit of ground-clearing and confidence-building. Rishi Sunak during prime ministers questions on Wednesday. The Tories have remained persistently behind Labour throughout the summer and currently stand on 32 per cent of the vote with Labour on 42 per cent, according to BMG. Even in the lowest months of the summer, there was no serious talk of a leadership challenge. This represents a five-point jump for Labour when compared to polling carried out by the channel last week, and no movement at all for the Conservatives, who remain on 21% of the vote. . The politicians listed below include: The following polls have asked people which leader they think would better handle the COVID-19 pandemic. The following polls asked about voters' opinions on Rishi Sunak, leader of the Conservative Party since 24 October 2022 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 25 October 2022. His dullness became steadiness; his earnestness became a serious leader for serious times. Starmer may scrape a win at the next general election, against an internally divided Conservative governing party only too obviously divorced from the concerns of much of the electorate. His party trails Labour by more than 20 points in the polls. "Labour's poor position today is the result of factors both out of their control and things they should be deeply concerned with.". Potential Tory rebels faced a pincer movement of private pressure at Westminster alongside assured ministerial actions on the national stage. However, many within Labours ranks found Starmers performance to be flat and criticised his line of questioning. The Labour leader has made a dirty word of socialism and shown that his own word counts for nothing. . It is a dramatic capitulation for a party in opposition that grew out of the activities of the trade union movement. On the eve of his big speech, Keir Starmer showed his frustration at being constantly compared with two of his predecessors - Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair - and declined to say to which of them he was closer. 2023. The poll, based on the responses of 2,004 adults in the UK, also showed: Sir Keir Starmer slumps 17 points behind PM in new poll - and a third of Labour voters want him to quit, Sir Keir Starmer is lagging well behind Boris Johnson in a new opinion poll, Starmer 'up to it' as Labour leader - Miliband, Starmer 'trying to move party forward' - Brown, 'Labour Party has to do some soul searching', 33% of Labour voters want Sir Keir to resign as party leader, Two-thirds think Labour did badly in the local elections earlier this month but just 31% blame Sir Keir, 57% said Sir Keir has been a better party leader than his predecessor Mr Corbyn, The top choice for Sir Keir's replacement as Labour Party leader was Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, with approval from 47% and disapproval from 19%, The Conservatives are up two points to 44%, whilst Labour has dropped six points to 31%. Its serious people making a serious contribution to leveling the playing field with the Conservatives, they said. This takeover of party machinery has crucially extended to the partys finances and fundraising efforts. standard.co.uk - Miriam Burrell 5h. It includes a job ad for a celebrities and endorsement manager.. The following polls asked about voters' opinions on Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish National Party and first minister of Scotland since November 2014. The latest news, data and analysis on the worlds pandemic response. The next election is expected in 2024, but it could be sooner if Liz Truss's huge tax giveaway backfiresmore than it already has. The Labour leaders raft of broken promises on key issues likely to be close to the hearts of voters as their living standards collapse risks casting him as unreliable and untrustworthy. In my dealings with Gray when I was political secretary, I found her . The choreography of the protocol deal was also bold. February was another good month of polling for the Labour Party and Keir Starmer, who ended January holding a 21% lead over the Conservatives. When asked who they blamed for the crisis, voters placed equal weight on Liz Truss (21%) and the war in Ukraine (21%). Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Labours new HQ in Southwark is described by party officials as a serious upgrade, with the NEC member quoted earlier calling it a proper campaign HQ, like it was in 1997., The party has also been on a hiring spree in recent months, advertising for dozens of new positions across the country. Starmer turned in some more relaxed performances at Prime Ministers Questions, starting to look more confident and suggesting that he had finally got the measure of Johnson. It also helps that Starmer is the first Labour leader since Blair to do it himself he actually seems to enjoy fundraising.. The hire of Alli as chair of campaign financing was a particularly adroit decision, according to several MPs and party officials. "Any opposition would be struggling against a government riding the success of the vaccine rollout and the last time the government's approval figures for the pandemic were this positive the Conservatives held a 17 point lead. Approval in the Blue Wall is no better, with the Governments approval on immigration down by one point to -44%, although it has improved its rating on the economy (-33%, +5), and the NHS (-49%, +2) since January. Team Starmer will be watching the next few opinion polls very closely. Advocacy group the Labour Muslim Network (LMN .
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