In power for just 115 days, Sir Keir Starmer’s approval rating among a deeply pessimistic public has taken a historic nose dive, collapsing a record 49 points since post-election polling.
The left-wing leader of the UK Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer, who swept to power in July on the lowest popular vote count seen in a British election in almost a century but nevertheless beating the rock-bottom Conservatives, has seen a record-breaking collapse in public confidence in his first months in power. Shortly after the election Starmer’s net approval hit as high as +11 — showing slightly more Britons approved of him than disapproved — but it has now collapsed an enormous 49 points to -38 approval.
This is the fastest drop of any modern British Prime Minister. Starmer compares poorly to his Labour predecessor Sir Tony Blair, for instance, who polled as high as +46 in the aftermath of his 1997 landslide election, and didn’t find himself in negative territory for years after, until Summer 2000. Conservative leaders fighting elections also haven’t been so distrusted so quickly as Starmer, with David Cameron taking two years to plumb such depths.