How well is Starmer handling the riots?

Sir Keir Starmer is having a rather testing time as Prime Minister, to put it mildly. With violent riots breaking out across the UK within his first month in the job, the Labour leader has already faced criticism from his opponents for having ‘dithered and delayed’ on the issue. Now the public have had their say – and it’s not good news for the new PM…

It transpires that just under half of all Brits think Starmer is handling these riots rather badly, according to YouGov polling of over 2,000 adults on Monday. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Reform and Tory voters are most inclined to slam the new PM – while only a third of Lib Dems and a quarter of Labour voters are quite as critical. And Mr S notes that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper doesn’t fare much better, with less than a quarter of people in Britain convinced she is handling the disorder well.