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<\/p>\nEamonn Holmes has launched a scathing attack on young political advisers, questioning their ability to understand the real-world challenges facing ordinary Britons.<\/p>\n
Speaking on GB News, the host said: “The thing that would surprise most people watching or listening is the age and experience of advisers.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve spent many years around politicians, and then you see what looks like a 12-year-old sitting beside them and think, \u201cYou\u2019re advising them?\u201d<\/p>\n
“I used to spend a lot of time with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, travelling back and forth on the plane, and I\u2019d look at their advisers whoever they were and think, \u201cHow on earth do you know anything about Northern Ireland?<\/p>\n
Eamonn Holmes has launched a scathing attack on young political advisers<\/p>\n
GB NEWS <\/p>\n
“Where were you born? Where are you from?\u201d You just think, they couldn\u2019t possibly know enough. They just couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m not someone who believes that youth holds all the answers but politicians seem to think it does.<\/p>\n
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: <\/strong><\/p>\n He added: \u201cYou haven\u2019t lived life. You don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to be taxed more, or to have less money, or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n The criticism comes at a particularly challenging time for Sir Keir Starmer’s Government, with new polling revealing widespread public dissatisfaction and confusion about Labour’s direction.<\/p>\n A stark survey by Electoral Calculus and Find Out Now for the Sunday Mirror found that nearly half of voters believe Starmer lacks clear values and priorities.<\/p>\n The poll revealed that 63 per cent of respondents don’t think the Prime Minister shares their values, whilst nearly half the population believes Labour is focusing on the wrong things.<\/p>\n Only one voter in 16 said Labour’s focus is mostly right, with even Labour supporters describing the Government’s performance as “a bit mixed”.<\/p>\n Martin Baxter, CEO of Electoral Calculus, warned: “People think his values are unclear or wrong, and that he focuses on the wrong issues.”<\/p>\n The polling data paints a bleak picture for Labour’s first year in power, with 46 per cent of those surveyed saying they feel worse off than when the party took office last July.<\/p>\n Just eight per cent believe Britain is on the “right track” under Starmer’s leadership, whilst 55 per cent say it’s heading in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n Just eight per cent believe Britain is on the “right track” under Starmer’s leadership<\/p>\n GB NEWS<\/p>\n The survey of 2,665 adults, conducted between July 3-4, found that even among Labour supporters, more think things have gone wrong than right.<\/p>\n Electoral Calculus warned that Starmer “will have to convince people that the economy and NHS are improving” to retain power.<\/p>\n The poll follows a tumultuous week in Parliament, with angry backbench revolts forcing the government to abandon significant welfare reforms that would have cut billions from the benefits bill.<\/p>\n Additional polling by More in Common has revealed Starmer’s approval rating has plummeted to an all-time low of -43, following the Government’s \u00a35billion welfare U-turn and Chancellor Rachel Reeves being seen crying in the Commons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eamonn Holmes has launched a scathing attack on young political advisers, questioning their ability to understand the real-world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,12,285,512,382,16,3106,15,6225],"class_list":{"0":"post-243366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-sgg","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-uk-politics","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-video-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243366","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=243366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Keir](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/keir-starmer.png\")