The Daily Chart: Starmer on the Rocks Already?

As noted here previously, the recent British election produced the anomaly of a huge Labour Party majority in the House of Commons with barely a third of the total vote, basely above Labour’s share in the wipe-out election of 2019. And Labour has installed the mild-mannered Kier Starmer as PM, though beneath the benevolent veneer of Starmer and his cabinet is a current of deep leftism. Their ideas are not popular, and but for the appalling malpractice of the Tory Party over the last few years, they would likely not have won.

Starmer’s approval ratings are already in free fall, and Owen Winter notes that it is not even close. Lord Andrew Roberts told me back in July that he thought it possible this huge Labour majority might run into trouble fairly quickly, and it looks like he is right.

The Telegraph notes that Starmer is perhaps the most miserable man in Britain:

Then again, perhaps he’s miserable because he’s noticed how screamingly unpopular he is. Barely two months have passed since Sir Keir won a 174-seat landslide. Yet his popularity is collapsing in record time. His approval ratings are as low as they were after Labour’s crushing defeat in the 2021 Hartlepool by-election. . .

I’ve started to believe that, ludicrous as it may sound, Sir Keir is on course for the biggest humiliation in political history. In 1924, exactly 100 years ago, the Tories won a majority of 209 seats – yet were turfed out a mere five years later. The way Sir Keir’s going, I genuinely think the same could happen to Labour in 2029. If so, it would be the most embarrassing defeat ever – because the Tories are meant to be finished.