{"id":155709,"date":"2025-06-03T20:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155709\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T20:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:39:18","slug":"politics-latest-trumps-tariffs-announcement-casts-doubt-over-uk-us-deal-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155709\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics latest: Trump&#8217;s tariffs announcement casts doubt over UK-US deal | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just under 11 months since Labour entered government, and the public has had the chance to see Sir Keir Starmer&#8217;s top teams in action.<\/p>\n<p>YouGov has done some polling to see what they think of the cabinet, and it makes for interesting reading &#8211; particularly when comparing what Labour voters think versus the wider public.<\/p>\n<p><b>Listen to the full detail and analysis on Politics At Sam And Anne&#8217;s &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/podfollow.com\/politics-at-sam-and-annes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tap here to listen on your favourite podcast app<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Defence Secretary John Healey<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He is the most popular member of the cabinet among the wider public, with a -10 approval rating.<\/p>\n<p>He is also popular among Labour voters, with a +2 approval rating &#8211; although ranks eighth overall.<\/p>\n<p><b>Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson<\/b><\/p>\n<p>She is also popular (relatively speaking) among the public, with an approval rating of -14.<\/p>\n<p>Labour voters put her on +2 &#8211; but she ranks down in seventh overall.<\/p>\n<p><b>Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The culture secretary is in third place in the wider public cabinet rankings, sitting on -15.<\/p>\n<p>She drops to fifth among Labour voters, with an approval rating of +5.<\/p>\n<p><b>Health Secretary Wes Streeting<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He comes in fourth among the wider public, with an approval of -16.<\/p>\n<p>Labour voters are less keen on him, ranking him down in sixth, with a +4 approval rating.<\/p>\n<p><b>Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall<\/b><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>But the wider public don&#8217;t have quite such a negative view compared to other cabinet ministers, putting her in fifth on -18.<\/p>\n<p><b>Home Secretary Yvette Cooper<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cooper is ranked in sixth among the wider public, with a rating of +11 &#8211; and Labour voters give her the same score, putting her in third<\/p>\n<p><b>Foreign Secretary David Lammy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The foreign secretary is not popular among either the wider public or Labour voters.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Energy Secretary Ed Miliband<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The former party leader still ranks fairly highly among Labour voters, who rank him in fourth, with a +9 favourability rating.<\/p>\n<p><b>Deputy PM Angela Rayner<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Although she declared to Sky News that she will &#8220;never&#8221; seek the Labour leadership, she is the most popular cabinet minister among her party&#8217;s voters. She has a favourability of +14.<\/p>\n<p>But among the public at large, she ranks third from the bottom on -31.<\/p>\n<p><b>PM Sir Keir Starmer<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The prime minister is popular among his own party, ranking behind his deputy in second place on +11.<\/p>\n<p>But the public do not like him at all, giving him a favourability rating of -40.<\/p>\n<p><b>Chancellor Rachel Reeves<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It will not shock you to learn that Reeves is the most unpopular member of the cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>The public put her on -46, and even her own party views her the most unfavourably, giving her a score of -11.<\/p>\n<p><b>Listen to the full detail and analysis on Politics At Sam And Anne&#8217;s &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podfollow.com\/politics-at-sam-and-annes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tap here to listen on your favourite podcast app<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s just under 11 months since Labour entered government, and the public has had the chance to see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-155709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114621367229249058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}