Oh dear. You couldn’t make this up. A new poll has revealed that Sir Keir Starmer is the least popular Prime Minister on record, and Rachel Reeves is the least popular Chancellor since their records began two years ago.
At the last Labour Party conference Sir Keir Starmer was treated like a rock star that was, of course, before Labour were elected but their first 14 months have been, shall we say, dire, to put it mildly.
They promised not to tax working people, yet they kicked off their policy machine with a bombshell scrapping the winter fuel allowance, a promise not in their manifesto, done with a level of arrogance that got the backs up of even those who supported them. It didn’t go well.
They backtracked. Then came the VAT raid on private schools, initiated mid-year at the most inopportune moment for parents but timed to raise as much revenue as possible.
Nana Akua shared her views on the latest polling data
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It royally backfired as parents predictably took their kids out of fee-paying schools, flooding the state system while independent schools started closing, causing a ripple effect for supporting businesses.
Then they went for farmers to claw back inheritance tax, risking food stability and the farming industry itself.
Inheritance tax on farmers was not received well, I suppose on that they kept their promise. Someone who has died is no longer working.
From there they went for the sick and disabled. I guess if they are too sick or disabled to work, then they’re not “working people” either.
That, of course, was rejected by their own party. Now their Digital ID plan has united almost every major political party against it, with a petition of more than two million signatures calling for the plans to be scrapped.
And of course, they ditched Rwanda and promised to smash the gangs, to go after the criminal networks, to smash the smuggling gangs.
But all they’ve done is smash the record, doubling the number of crossings. The small boats keep coming with no real policy to stop them. It really couldn’t be going any worse.
And let’s not forget the list of MPs and officials who have left in disgrace. Working backwards: Peter Mandelson, the most undiplomatic ambassador ever; Angela Rayner, a housing minister who evaded stamp duty; Roshan Ali, the homelessness minister who allegedly made tenants homeless to raise the rent; Tulip Siddiq, the anti-corruption minister investigated for corruption; Mike Ainslie, who punched a constituent to the floor; and Louise Hague, sacked after an old fraud conviction resurfaced and that is just some of them.
It’s going so badly that even Sadiq Khan is throwing his hat into the ring alongside Andy Burnham to lead the party.
Keir Starmer opened the Labour conference today
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Unfortunately, it would seem that Keir Starmer and his Chancellor are not reading the room.
The economy is contracting, inflation is sparring with growth on the floor. Slagging off Nigel Farage won’t help either.
Unfortunately, the Labour Party are the Tories on steroids, they have achieved in 14 months what took the Tories 14 years.
Changing the leader won’t make a blind bit of difference.
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