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Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media outside Arden Academy in Solihull, West Midlands, August 8, 2024
LABOUR’S honeymoon period has shown signs of waning as a survey today reveals the majority of the public thinks Britain is “moving in the wrong direction.”
Ipsos polling conducted between August 9-12 showed a post-general election drop in favourability for Sir Keir Starmer and his Cabinet after far-right rioting gripped the country.
The pollster’s senior director of UK politics, Gideon Skinner, said Labour and Sir Keir are “still enjoying a moderate honeymoon period” with their popularity still higher than the Tories or before the general election was called.
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP