Happy New Year Keir! Fresh polling from YouGov has Labour in third place for the first time since the election on 17%. The Tories sit on 19%, and Reform once again leads on 26%. This is the second time Labour’s poll rating has dropped to 17% since Starmer became PM. At the time of going to pixel, he is is about to hold his first cabinet meeting of 2026, with the cameras allowed inside for the first few minutes. Should be plenty of smiling faces…
Speaking on Trump’s military action in Venezuela, Kemi Badenoch told the Today Programme:
“Where the legal certainty is not yet clear, morally, I do think it was the right thing to do.”