Sir Keir suffers worst approval rating plunge of any new PM

While the Labour lot try and prepare the nation for Wednesday’s Budget announcement, the Prime Minister has had yet more bad news. According to one poll, Sir Keir Starmer has had the biggest drop in approval ratings after winning an election than, um, any new PM in modern times. Talk about a short honeymoon…

Starmer saw a post-election high of +11 in July, according to More in Common, after his party’s landslide victory. But his positive reviews weren’t to last long — and since then, less than four months into the top job, the survey of 1,012 adults shows his rating has plummeted by 49 points to -38. In fact, Sir Keir’s individual rating has fallen so far that the PM sits below even Rishi Sunak — whose post-election score was -37, improving to -31 this month. And Starmer can’t take much comfort in his predecessors’ ratings looking similar. Tony Blair’s approval score only became negative three years after he took office.