Keir Starmer is polling as the UK’s most unpopular prime minister on record. Where did it all go wrong?

CNN ^ | September 30, 2025 | Christian Edwards

[MinorityRepublican]

A year ago, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won the largest majority in Parliament this century and consigned the Conservatives, Labour’s historic rival, to its worst defeat. Now, after 15 months in power, Starmer has become the most unpopular British prime minister on record.

Although previous leaders have joined despised foreign wars, bungled responses to a pandemic and nearly sent the economy into meltdown, none have been as unpopular as Starmer, according to Ipsos, a leading pollster. Just 13% of voters say they are satisfied with Starmer, while 79% are unsatisfied.

Labour has “suffered the worst-ever fall in support for a newly elected government,” said John Curtice, the doyen of polling in Britain. But he is not surprised: Thanks to Britain’s electoral system, Labour won about two-thirds of seats with just one-third of the votes cast. Accounting for low turnout, Curtice said just one in five Britons voted for Starmer’s Labour Party. As landslides go, Starmer’s was loveless.

Things have only gotten worse since then. Labour has slumped to around 20% in recent polls, while Reform UK – the upstart hard-right party led by firebrand Nigel Farage – has surged to around 35%, the same share that Labour won last year. Many in Labour fear they face handing Reform UK a majority as large as their own in the next election, due in 2029.

That fear hung over Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, on England’s northwestern coast, where members of Parliament (MPs) and party members gathered this week to take stock of a country that is running out of patience for what Labour is selling, and of sympathy for its salesman.

[ClearCase_guy]

I don’t think he cares. I think he hates the Brits.

[SunStar]

I’m guessing it’s because he’s a communist revolutionary and tyrant who continues to subject his citizens to mass migration and puts anyone who complains in prison.

[Telepathic Intruder]

He won’t need the British vote if his plan goes well.

[Red Badger]

“Where did it all go wrong?”?????????..............

ABCNNBCBSNPR just cannot fathom why they and their ilk are not universally loved and worshipped.

It is beyond their feeble minds as to why people hate them and hate them with a passion..............

[Leaning Right]

Thanks for these UK posts. I find them very interesting.

And sad, also.

[SaveFerris]

(ABCNNBCBSNPR just cannot fathom why they and their ilk are not universally loved and worshipped.)

YEP

[MinorityRepublican]

You’re welcome. More than anything else, these are lessons for the U.S.

[proxy_user]

The answer is simple: he is a human-rights attorney, and the UK is in the middle of a huge wave of immigration.

[SaveFerris]

(Where did it all go wrong?)

CNN just can't quite figure it out 😕😕😕 - it's very complicated of course...🙄🙄🙄

'1984' GLOBALIST FASCIST SIR KEIR STARMER made this happen

don't make a MEME or complain on British Social Media - THAT IS NOW A CRIME under NAZI JACKBOOT '1984' THUG SIR KEIR STARMER

(UK Struggles to Find Free Speech Balance)

UK Struggles to SUPPRESS British Citizens' Free Speech
While Appeasing Invasion by Implementing '1984' Tyranny

(hat tip to another FReeper for images)

England 2025 is now '1984' in Real Time

Coming to a country near you should the
Godless Democrats get back in power

Tyrannical Globalists Unite!!!

["This Keir Starmer, in my opinion, is evil. IF YOU SPEAK OUT, HE'LL PUT YOU IN PRISON. And we've seen that with LUCY CONNOLLY. He wants people in prison. And lets remind ourselves, this is a man who has spent his life defending wronguns. He doesn't defend people like us, he defends wronguns and he'll put anybody above the best interests of the British people."]



'1984'

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Seems somewhat clear, to me. The UK “Conservatives” weren’t anymore so than America’s RINOS. Reform split the vote, giving Laboooor an unprecedented victory. They don’t have the popular support, though - just a systemic support, for now.

[motor_racer]

Parliamentary government is the statists’ dream.

[Republican Wildcat]

Reform UK – the upstart hard-right party

That party is hardly "hard right." Nationalization of industries is not a "hard right" viewpoint.

[phil00071]

“Reform UK - the upstart hard-right party led by firebrand Nigel Farage…”. That sentence tells you all you need to know about CNN bias. How come there are no “firebrands” on the left.”

[crusty old prospector]

I love me some hard-right firebrands.

[Bonemaker]

When he was born.

[Republican Wildcat]

The Conservative Party was literally governing in the last few years the same as Labour - not even "Labour-lite". Beyond our "RINOs." They got thrown out because these policies don't work...and just because it now has the genuine branding with the same policies...low and behold, those policies still don't work. Who knew?

Liz Truss was actually conservative, but she was not competent to be in the role of a chief executive - she could not steer the ship...that lead to her quick downfall, coupled with the fact the Conservative backbenchers did not want to support an actual conservative agenda and so she was easy to dispatch due to her weakness as a leader.

Ideally, a total collapse of Labour with a return of the Conservatives to being more Thatcherite, and with the rise of Reform UK would be ideal for the UK where they would be the two dominant parties - disagreements on policy matters, but a common set of values that are actually British - wherein one or the other is the leading party with the other as the "loyal opposition." But that's a pipe dream, probably.

[Savage Beast]

The important question is whether to British People diem capient and restore the UK to sanity and strength or will continue to slide deeper into decay, despair, and destruction.

Back in the days of the British Empire, when Britannia ruled the waves and Britons vowed that they never, never, never, never shall be slaves, Rudyard Kipling prayed that the Lord God of Hosts be with them yet lest they forget.

Well apparently they were determined to forget anyway, even though the Lord God of Hosts was with them yet and still is.

He can save them yet.

[Gay State Conservative]

For at least a while Thatcher was considered quite unpopular.

[Gay State Conservative]

“hard right party”. I guess that means proudly British.