Not a Shock

It's been less than 2 months, but already Keir Starmer is less popular than his predecessor Rishi Sunak.

This is not a surprising development.  He was elected not to be the Tories, and his governing to this point is to be the slightly less insane Tories:

Keir Starmer has suffered a precipitous fall in his personal ratings since winning the election, according to a new poll for the Observer that comes before his first Labour conference as prime minister.

The latest Opinium poll reveals that Starmer’s approval rating has plunged below that of the Tory leader Rishi Sunak, suffering a huge 45-point drop since July. While 24% of voters approve of the job he is doing, 50% disapprove, giving him a net rating of -26%. Sunak’s net rating is one point better.

The prime minister is not alone in suffering from a major drop in personal support since the election. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, who has cut winter fuel payments for all but the poorest pensioners and promised tough decisions on welfare and tax in the forthcoming budget, has seen a 36-point drop in her net approval since July.

While Labour continues to lead on most issues, it has almost lost its lead on the economy. It is ahead by only one point on the issue, down from a 10-point lead in July. A third see the government as being open about the challenges facing the country, but more than half think the government has been bad at providing optimism or rebuilding trust in politics.

This is not a messaging problem, this is a policy problem.

Keir Starmer thinks that the Tories are the opposition, but that the left is the enemy, much in the same way that Tony Blair did. 

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James Crouch, head of policy and public affairs at Opinium said: “While the prime minister might have a world-beating new wardrobe, voters are refusing to wear his government’s austerity drive.

A quick aside here, top labor figures have received gifts of designer clothes from rich supporters worth many thousands of pounds, because they are corrupt hypocrites.

I expect to see the Tories, or heaven help the UK, Nigel Farage's Reform Party, winning the next election.

If Labour is determined to be a pale copy of the Tories, the voters will select the real Tories.