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The popularity of Sir Keir Starmer has fallen to its lowest record with the sharpest autumn among work voters, according to Youugov Research that will disturb concerns at Downing Street.
The percentage of work voters with a favorable view of the UK Prime Minister has dropped from 62 percent to 45 percent in just one month, the voting company discovered. The first time Starmer has recorded a net appreciation of negative approval between work supports.
Some labor lawmakers fear that Starmer’s relocation on the right to some policy issues, in an attempt to neutralize the threat of Reform in the United Kingdom, has alienated many of the party’s natural supporters.
The Labor Government has announced deep cuts in the international aid budget, set difficult reforms in the welfare system, and this week announced new restrictions on immigration.
A speech from Starmer on Monday was criticized by several work MPs who suggested his reference to Britain’s risk of becoming a “island of strangers” accidentally echoed the language used by Enoch Powell at his controversial “River Rivers” address of 1968.
More than 100 labor lawmakers have signed a private letter to their whipping mayor, seeking to tear for well -being reforms, in a sign of jeans within the Parliamentary Labor Party.
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Voting follows local elections on May 1, in which the populist party of the populist reform of Nigel Farage made large profits at the expense of work and conservatives in the districts, the mayor and an additional election.
Recent surveys have shown that the reform opened a considerable lead throughout the country. Being just before work at the beginning of the year, the Farage party is now on average 29 percent ahead of 23 percent for work and 18 percent for conservatives, according to policy survey surveys.
Whitehall is preparing for a difficult review of spending next month in which ministers will set priority for the coming years, with further restrictions expected in areas including local government.
In all voters surveyed by Youugov in May, only 23 percent of the Britons expressed a favorable view of Starmer, marking a five -point decline from the same time in April.
This takes its popularity again in its former Nadir of July 2021 when he was the leader of the opposition and then Prime Minister Tory Boris Johnson was enjoying a “vaccine bounce” during the Covid-19 pandemic.
With the proportion of people with an unfavorable Starmer opinion that rises from 62 percent in April to 69 percent today, Starmer’s Favourability’s net rating is immersed in -46, the lowest ever recorded by Youugov.
The same vote showed that Parage’s public view was recorded from 27 percent to 32 percent in one month, even if 59 percent of voters still dislike it, reflecting a net favorable estimate of -27.
Farage is a little more popular among Tory voters than party leader we have Badenoch, Youugov suggests. In general, 16 percent of the public has a favorable opinion on it, while 55 percent have an unfavorable appearance, giving a net result of -39.
Visualization of data by Jonathan Vincent
