Around one in three Britons believe Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be ousted from office by the end of the year amid growing dissatisfaction with the left-wing Labor government's policies.
a investigation Of 1,144 people in the UK according to Deltapoll. sunday mail Nearly a third of voters do not expect Starmer to continue as prime minister this year, while 68% believe the left-wing leader, who came to power just six months ago, is performing “terribly”. Got it.
Similarly, 69% think the country is heading in the wrong direction, with costs of living and a growing crisis in the country's socialized healthcare system among other concerns.
Additionally, anger over mass immigration is growing, with more than six in 10 voters saying the number of foreigners allowed into the country should be reduced, and 68% saying the government should introduce an annual cap on legal immigration. The answer is yes. Previous Conservative governments and Starmer's Labor Party have refused to implement it.
The poll found Labor continues to lead in voting intentions with 30%, but one in five voters supports it, compared to 23% for the Conservatives and 22% for Nigel Farage's Reform Britain. There are worrying signs in these two establishment parties. They now believe that the person responsible for Brexit will be the country's next prime minister.
An anonymous Labor MP told this newspaper: Sadly, this confirms what I and other Labor colleagues are finding before our eyes right now.
“Support for Kier was never huge. But after a number of missteps, from the abolition of winter fuel charges to tax increases, what little support there was for the chancellor has collapsed.”
The damning inquiry comes as parliament this week considers a petition with nearly three million signatures calling for a new general election.
Although Labor achieved a majority in July's general election, winning 411 seats in the 650-member House of Commons, it received just over a third of the votes. Given the historically low turnout, the government actually came to power. support That's only about one in five voters.
Many of Labour's seats were won in close elections, prompting calls from the left to change electoral rules to ensure the party's ability to stay in power.
This week, the Labor Party-aligned Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) argued that the government should remove or relax electoral rules on voter identification introduced in 2022. The left-wing think tank claimed that doing so would “reduce inequality across the UK”. election”.
IPPR further suggested that Starmer's government would allow around 5 million foreigners with residence permits to vote in national elections, which is likely to significantly boost Labor's support. .
Nigel Huddleston, co-leader of the Conservative Party, said: said of daily mail“This is nothing but a shameless attempt by Labor to rig the election in their favor and turn a blind eye to electoral fraud.
“No wonder Labor has resorted to dirty methods to improve its chances of electoral success and distract the public from its failures.”
