Sir Keir rated worse than predecessors at same point as PM

When it rains for Sir Keir, it pours. It now transpires that the Labour leader has achieved a worse rating as Prime Minister than all of his recent predecessors – bar Liz Truss, who didn’t manage to last quite as long in the top job. It seems for Keir Starmer, things can only get, er, worse…

New polling by YouGov collected between 19-21 October from over 1,600 adults shows that little more than a quarter of Brits believe the current PM is doing well in post, while almost two-thirds of the population think Starmer is performing badly. It’s in stark contrast to the ratings of the last Labour prime minister Gordon Brown – with two-thirds of UK voters believing the politician was doing a good job in office just over three months into the job, and less than a third thinking Brown was doing badly. How the tables turn…