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New survey finds Keir Starmer is now as ‘unpopular’ among Brits as Nigel Farage
Cover your eyes, Keir.
Emily Sergeant -
16th October 2024 
More than six in 10 Brits have admitted to now disliking Keir Starmer, a shocking new survey has revealed.
The Labour Party leader won the General Election in a landslide victory back in July, finally bringing 14 years of Conservative rule to an end, before formally taking over the role of Prime Minister from Rishi Sunak, but since then, it hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for Keir Starmer during his time in office, especially after a recent few weeks dominated by a donations scandal and rows over the winter fuel payments for pensioners.
Now, a new survey carried out by YouGov has revealed that Starmer’s favourability rating has plummeted to the lowest level since he took over as Labour leader back in 2020.
The Prime Minister now has a net score of -36, according to YouGov.
This means that, currently, only 27% of Brits have a positive opinion of the Prime Minister, which is the the lowest since September 2021, while 63% have a negative opinion of him, making it the highest score to date.
What makes these results from this survey – which was conducted at the start of this month (October) – even more damning for Starmer is probably the fact that almost as many people now have an unfavourable view of his as they did Jeremy Corbyn at the end of his time as Labour leader, which was 65%.
But just when you think it couldn’t get any worse for him, the survey reveals that Starmer is now as unpopular as Nigel Farage – 28% of Brits have a positive view, and 63% a negative one.
While more people did answer that they have a “very unfavourable” view of the Reform UK leader (49%, to Starmer’s 41%), a surprisingly larger number of Brits also have a “very favourable” opinion of Farage (10% vs 4%).
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Thankfully though, if Starmer is to cling onto anything, the survey did find that the Prime Minister is, for the time being at least, still less unpopular than Rishi Sunak – with 66% holding a negative view, and 24% a positive one.
Featured Image – Kirsty O’Connor / No 10 Downing Street (via Flickr)
