It’s just under 11 months since Labour entered government, and the public has had the chance to see Sir Keir Starmer’s top teams in action.
YouGov has done some polling to see what they think of the cabinet, and it makes for interesting reading – particularly when comparing what Labour voters think versus the wider public.
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Defence Secretary John Healey
He is the most popular member of the cabinet among the wider public, with a -10 approval rating.
He is also popular among Labour voters, with a +2 approval rating – although ranks eighth overall.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson
She is also popular (relatively speaking) among the public, with an approval rating of -14.
Labour voters put her on +2 – but she ranks down in seventh overall.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy
The culture secretary is in third place in the wider public cabinet rankings, sitting on -15.
She drops to fifth among Labour voters, with an approval rating of +5.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting
He comes in fourth among the wider public, with an approval of -16.
Labour voters are less keen on him, ranking him down in sixth, with a +4 approval rating.
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall
Cuts to welfare always prove controversial among Labour voters, and that bears out in the numbers, where she is ranked down in 10th with a rating of -4, only above Rachel Reeves.
But the wider public don’t have quite such a negative view compared to other cabinet ministers, putting her in fifth on -18.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper
Cooper is ranked in sixth among the wider public, with a rating of +11 – and Labour voters give her the same score, putting her in third
Foreign Secretary David Lammy
The foreign secretary is not popular among either the wider public or Labour voters.
He is in seventh among Britons generally, with a rating of -25, and is one of just three cabinet ministers that Labour voters have a net negative view of, putting him on -1.
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband
The former party leader still ranks fairly highly among Labour voters, who rank him in fourth, with a +9 favourability rating.
Deputy PM Angela Rayner
Although she declared to Sky News that she will “never” seek the Labour leadership, she is the most popular cabinet minister among her party’s voters. She has a favourability of +14.
But among the public at large, she ranks third from the bottom on -31.
PM Sir Keir Starmer
The prime minister is popular among his own party, ranking behind his deputy in second place on +11.
But the public do not like him at all, giving him a favourability rating of -40.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves
It will not shock you to learn that Reeves is the most unpopular member of the cabinet.
The public put her on -46, and even her own party views her the most unfavourably, giving her a score of -11.
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