Nigel Farage’s popularity has surged while Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer’s have fallen dramatically, new polling by J.L Partners has revealed.
The Reform UK leader is now more popular than the Chancellor and Prime Minister after his popularity rose from minus 18 in June 2024 to minus 10 today.
Twelve per cent of people had a ‘very positive’ view of Farage, far higher than Reeves, Streeting, Cooper, Lammy and Miliband who only four per cent of people felt the same about.
In the same period, Sir Keir Starmer experienced a dramatic fall in popularity, from plus seven to minus 22.
Favourability of key figures before the General Election and present
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Thirty per cent of people also recorded they had a ‘very negative’ view of Sir Keir Starmer, the highest proportion of all figures featured in the poll.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves fared little better. Her popularity fell from minus three to minus 16, while 21 per cent had a ‘very negative’ view of the Chancellor.
Both Starmer and Reeves have suffered huge drops in popularity over several controversial calls they’ve made in their first five months in power.
These include axing winter fuel payments for up to nine million pensioners, slapping farmers with inheritance tax bills, removing the bus fare cap, surrendering the Chagos Islands and hiking up Employer’s National Insurance Contributions.
This goes without mentioning the Sue Grey fiasco, allegations of cronyism and politicisation of the civil service, Starmer's vast number of donations and now the resurfacing of infantile, vitriolic comments made by almost every single cabinet member about Donald Trump, president elect of the USA.
These decisions have led to Labour taking a hammering at the ballot box in local elections since the General Election.
Starmer’s party have lost 22 seats- 40 per cent of all seats they have defended- in that period.
J.L. Partners’ polling also revealed some interesting insight into other political figures.
Martin Lewis- the money saving expert- recorded a plus 53 rating while Jeremy Clarkson scored plus 17.
The farming hero has been actively railing against the Labour government in the farming protests enveloping across Westminster today.
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He added ‘there is no money in farming’ and that the nations’ farmers ‘need help’.
When he was told he was more trusted than Reeves and Starmer, Jeremy joked: “I’d become an MP – but if I am paying inheritance tax, I could not afford to take the pay cut.”
Elsewhere, new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch scored minus one, while ex-Conservative leader Boris Johnson scored minus 13.
