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Keir Starmer ends 2025 on a new low

As 2025 draws to a close, Keir Starmer is ending the year as he began it β€” by losing the respect of the British public:

2025: Losing hearts and minds

The graph above is a summary of all the pollsters, calculated by Stats for Lefties. As you can see, Starmer has mostly just squandered his approval, with only one bounce back. When it comes to the individual pollsters, there have been more up and downs, but the overall trend has been negative:

Stats for Lefties also provided the following end-of-year charts:

Clearly, Labour and the Tories are this year’s losers, while Reform and the Greens are its winners. This may not mean much right now, but we could see significant changes to the country’s political makeup when the local elections roll around in May (even if several elections have been cancelled).

The following was one of the last polls that Labour will see this year:

The only reason anyone might think the above poll is ‘good’ is because other recent polls looked like this:

2026: The road ahead

As we’ve covered extensively, the big problem Keir Starmer has is Keir Starmer. The man convinced the general public that he’s a liar, and there’s no coming back from that β€” not without meaningfully improving people’s lives.

It might be true to say things would be getting worse more quickly under the Tories or Reform, but that’s an unknown, whereas the decline people feel under Starmer is a certainty.

The key reason for this decline is widening inequality and failed privatisation means Britain isn’t a society anymore; it’s a piggy bank for the rich. Changing this fact won’t be quick, but Starmer clearly isn’t even trying.

Even if Starmer goes, it remains unclear that Labour can turn things around. That aside, it’s clear they definitely can’t with him in the place, so we recommend they flush this turd as soon as possible.

Featured image via Stats for Lefties

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.