{"id":313629,"date":"2025-08-14T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313629"},"modified":"2025-08-15T06:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:47:25","slug":"fresh-blow-to-starmer-as-labours-approval-rating-slumps-to-its-lowest-ever-level-with-just-13-per-cent-happy-with-governments-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313629","title":{"rendered":"Fresh blow to Starmer as Labour’s approval rating slumps to its lowest EVER level – with just 13 per cent happy with government’s record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Hooper \u2013 The Daily Mail Aug 12, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Keir Starmer was dealt a fresh blow last night as his Government’s popularity sunk to its lowest level to date.<\/p>\n

The Government’s approval rating slipped to minus 55, according to pollsters YouGov.<\/p>\n

Just 13 per cent of the public included in the survey said they approved of the Government’s record since returning to power under Sir Keir last summer – the same percentage as the previous week.<\/p>\n

But those who disapproved slipped by another percentage point, down to 68 per cent.<\/p>\n

It meant the net approval rating lurched to a record low for this administration.<\/p>\n

The weekly poll makes grim reading for Labour<\/strong><\/a><\/span> HQ, and follows a series of blows to Sir Keir’s authority, including fresh accusations he has failed to get a hold of the small boats crisis, and claims he has presided over a ‘two-tier’ justice system.<\/p>\n

He also had to deal with the resignation of his homelessness minister over a rental home row.<\/p>\n

The YouGov data came after it was officially confirmed more than 50,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel since Labour won the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n

Analysis claimed the milestone was reached in 401 days of the Starmer government, compared with 603 days for Rishi Sunak’s administration, and more than 1,000 days under Boris Johnson’s.<\/p>\n

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Liz Truss did not last long enough to reach the landmark, although a total of 10,532 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel during the 49 days of her premiership.<\/p>\n

Figures this week showed Labour freed more than 26,000 criminals as part of its early release scheme.<\/p>\n

This included hundreds of serious offenders who were handed sentences of more than a decade behind bars.<\/p>\n

The figures suggested 45,000 criminals could have their sentences cut in the programme’s first year, which was designed to ease pressure on Britain’s overcrowded prisons.<\/p>\n

There have also been claims police under Labour have been treating certain right-wing protesters more severely than minority groups – a theory pushed by former Donald Trump ally Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

And beleaguered shopkeepers have been told not to publicise the identities of suspected shoplifters, despite concerns over-stretched police are effectively powerless to clamp down on thieves.<\/p>\n

Last week, homelessness minister Rushanara Ali became the fourth Labour minister under Sir Keir to have left their role over a personal matter.<\/p>\n

She was accused of ‘staggering hypocrisy’ amid claims she ejected tenants from one of her properties, before putting it back on the market for an extra \u00a3700 a month in rent.<\/p>\n

And the economy remains dire, amid claims Chancellor Rachel Reeves will have to increase taxes substantially this autumn to fill a \u00a350 billion black hole.<\/p>\n

YouGov polling has always shown Labour to have a negative approval rating since returning to power for the first time since Gordon Brown was Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

But the country was largely split down the middle in the early days of Sir Keir’s premiership, with just a couple of percentage points between those who thought the Government was doing a good job, and those who disagreed.<\/p>\n

And it has steadily gotten worse, with brief increases in approval followed by extended periods where public satisfaction diminishes.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s no exaggeration to say that Starmer is Britain’s most unpopular serving prime minister ever. Possibly even more so than Tony Blair <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313663,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313629\/revisions\/313663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}