The latest Ipsos poll make grim reading for Downing Street as they head into the Christmas break. A dismal 61% of Britons say they’re dissatisfied with Keir Starmer, marking his worst showing yet as Labour leader. Just 27% think Starmer is doing a good job, leaving him with a net approval rating of -34. Worse than Brown’s negative rating (-23) in his first five months of government…
The Government doesn’t fare much better, with a whopping 70% of the public dissatisfied. Even more striking, 65% believe the economy will worsen in the next year – the bleakest outlook since the post-mini-budget chaos at the end of 2022. With the reaction to Reeves Budget looking frostier by the day, they may be onto something…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”