70% of Brits say UK is worse under Starmer

PM Keir Starmer and the Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
Photo: PA

Panic stations for Labour as poll shows support slumping to post-election low of just 25% amid Budget farm tax backlash - as 70% of Brits say UK is worse under Starmer, ‘The Daily Mail’ writes.

Support for Labour has slumped to a new record post-election low amid a backlash over plans to tax farmers, a new poll shows.

Sir Keir Starmer's party is now three points behind the Tories - and just six ahead of Reform - down two on 25 per cent after a week of battles over its plan to make agriculturalists pay a low rate of inheritance tax.

It marks a dramatic fall from its post-election high of 39 per cent which gave it an 11-point lead over the Conservatives.

A second poll shows that almost three-quarters of voters now believe the UK has got worse under Sir Keir's leadership. 

The surveys by More in Common were carried out between November 19 and 21.

The man behind a viral petition demanding a General Election has revealed why he started – as it clocks over more than 2.5million signatures.

Pub landlord Michael Westwood said he decided to launch the petition having seen Keir Starmer and his MPs go back on their manifesto promises and repeatedly talk down the prospects for the country.

Michael Westwood
Photo: ‘The Daily Mail’

The poorly received budget from Rachel Reeves that saw employers hit with an increase in national insurance tax was a key factor in his decision to launch the petition.

The chance for a political do-over has way surpassed the 100,000 signature threshold it needs to be debated in the House of Commons.

As many as 400,000 people a day are backing the landlord's call for a new election, illuminating the depth of anger the public have with the Prime Minister and his Government.

A new MailOnline map allows you to see exactly how many people in your area desire a second vote, just months after Sir Keir reigned victorious on July 4.

'Fed-up' Michael said: 'I just thought they were being so negative all the time. They were putting the fear of God into people that everything was so bad. They had also gone back on their manifesto promises.

'I was just frustrated at what I was seeing and hearing it all the time and it really annoyed me.

'I just typed into Google 'how to change the Prime Minister' and it came back with start a petition. So that's what I did.'

Michael, who runs three pubs in the West Midlands, said he has been 'staggered' by the support for the petition but said he is far from political.

'I'm not political at all but just very patriotic and I didn't like the way they were talking down the country.

'It's a great place to live, or was. We shall see how it is in a couple of years while Labour are running it.'

Michael said that Starmer got off to a bad start when he became embroiled in the freebie row when it emerged that he attended a Taylor Swift concert at Wembley and used labour donor Lord Alli's £18 million Covent Garden penthouse when his son was studying for his GCSEs.

Michael added: 'Labour's strategy was to say whatever we want to get into power. It will be two years of doom and gloom, saying how bad a shape the Tories left the country in and the following two years it will be about Labour saying they are getting things back on track. Then in the final year before an election there will be tax cuts and all kinds of stuff to show how well they have done. Its all about staying in power.'

Staggering polling shows Farage’s (left) popularity surging while Starmer (right) hit new lows.

Nigel Farage’s popularity has surged while Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer’s have fallen dramatically, new polling by J.L Partners has revealed, GB News reports.

The Reform UK leader is now more popular than the Chancellor and Prime Minister after his popularity rose from minus 18 in June 2024 to minus 10 today.

Twelve per cent of people had a ‘very positive’ view of Farage, far higher than Reeves, Streeting, Cooper, Lammy and Miliband who only four per cent of people felt the same about.

Thirty per cent of people also recorded they had a ‘very negative’ view of Sir Keir Starmer, the highest proportion of all figures featured in the poll.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves fared little better. Her popularity fell from minus three to minus 16, while 21 per cent had a ‘very negative’ view of the Chancellor.

Both Starmer and Reeves have suffered huge drops in popularity over several controversial calls they’ve made in their first five months in power.

These include axing winter fuel payments for up to nine million pensioners, slapping farmers with inheritance tax bills, removing the bus fare cap, surrendering the Chagos Islands and hiking up Employer’s National Insurance Contributions.

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