There has been no ‘honeymoon period’ for Keir Starmer as his personal rating has collapsed in the opinion polls.

Here’s the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror:

His net rating now stands at -26 and is one point lower than the ex-Tory PM Rishi Sunak, whose own rating is -25, according to pollsters Opinium. It comes amid a gloomy start for the new Labour government over a mounting backlash on cutting winter fuel payments for pensioners and rows over freebies and donors.

When he entered No10 as Prime Minister in July, Mr Starmer had an approval rating of +19. But Opinium’s latest survey shows his approval rating has dropped to -26 and is down 13 points from just a fortnight ago. The poll also shows almost half (45%) of voters have a more negative view of Mr Starmer and Labour since they came to office.

Just 27% of those asked said the new government’s first months as a success

That’s what happens when you say you’ll do one thing in order to get power, and then do something completely different once you have it.

And it is possible that Starmer still hasn’t learned his lesson.

He’s now saying that there will be no more austerity because it did a huge amount of damage to public services.

For there to be no more austerity, Starmer’s Chancellor – Rachel Reeves – would have to restore departmental budgets to the inflation-corrected equivalent of what they were before the Coalition government of 2010 got into office.

But we’re being warned that there will be “tough decisions” in the Budget, meaning either public service cuts or tax rises, and certainly no room for departments to get extra cash.

Is this another Starmer lie? And if so, will his poll ratings plummet even further?

Source: Keir Starmer’s personal rating slides to lowest ever level as Labour conference kicks off

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