A new opinion poll has found support for the Labour Party has dropped significantly since the general election revealing Starmer's faltering performance compared to previous MPs' first days in power.
The poll - conducted by More in Common - puts support for Labour at 29 per cent, which is only four per cent ahead of the Conservatives at 25 per cent.
More in Common's first poll since the general election in July shows that support has fallen for Labour to the benefit of the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and Reform.
The previous poll - carried out in June and July - put support for Labour at 40 per cent, the Tories at 24 per cent, Reform at 14 per cent, the Lib Dems at 11 per cent and the Greens at 6 per cent.
The Conservative Party are only 4 per cent behind the Labour Party in public polling
PAIn contrast, the voting intention figures for More in Common's poll conducted in September are:
- Labour 29%
- Tories 25%
- Reform 18%
- Lib Dems 14%
- Greens 8%
- SNP 3%
While it is common for the winning party of an election to lose some support after the honeymoon period has ended, Starmer's rating is far lower than that of his predecessors.
According to poll averages from PollBasePro (Bailey, Pack & Mansillo, 2022), Starmer is the first prime minister whose party has fallen under 30 per cent in the first 70 days of office.
In contrast, in 2022, it took Boris Johnson's Tory party 762 days to fall below 30 per cent and in 2019 it took Theresa May 675 days to reach the same rate.
The first time the Conservative government elected in 2019 fell under 30 per cent was with Johnson in 2022.
Gordon Brown's government took 1,082 days and Tony Blair's 1,104 to fall to a 30 per cent rating.
In 2022, it took Boris Johnson's Tory party 762 days to fall below 30 per cent approval rate
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Even the controversial Margaret Thatcher took 676 days in government before the governing party's polling average went under 30 per cent.
The poll, which surveyed 2,018 GB adults, also asked respondents how the Labour government compares to the previous Conservative government.
In total, more people (60%) felt as though the new Labour government "feels like more of the same", compared to 40 per cent who said it "feels genuinely different."
The results differ across the political spectrum with a majority (77%) of Reform UK voters saying it feels like more of the same alongside 62 per cent of the Green Party voters and 54 per cent of Lib Dems and Tories.
Meanwhile, Labour voters are the only respondents who believe the new government are genuinely different with 60 per cent agreeing compared to 40 per cent.