While 31 percent thought Starmer and his team had changed the country in the right way,
\u201cbut not enough,\u201d more than half \u2014\u00a056 percent \u2014 said Labour has either not changed anything since winning power in 2024 or changed the country for the worse.<\/p>\n
And a similar proportion \u2014\u00a053 percent \u2014\u00a0said Labour has no realistic chance of being re-elected whenever the next election comes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
For Nigel Farage\u2019s nationalist Reform UK party, by contrast, the verdict is dramatically more positive. Not only is Farage distinctly more popular than Starmer, his party is seen as more likely to succeed at handling key challenges facing Britain \u2014 and 65 percent of the public believe Reform now has \u201ca real chance\u201d of winning power.<\/p>\n
The results suggest Farage\u2019s Reform UK has broken through to become a far more credible political movement in the eyes of the public than it was shortly before the 2024 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Labour Party ran on a promise of \u2018change\u2019 but very few people now feel they have delivered,\u201d said Seb Wride, head of polling at Public First. \u201cThey therefore have opened the door for Reform to claim that \u2018change\u2019 narrative for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
The poll comes as Starmer faces a concerted campaign to force him out<\/a> of Downing Street from within his own Labour Party. After months of scandals and missteps, culminating in a dismal slate of election defeats<\/a> in Wales, Scotland and across English local councils last week, Starmer\u2019s own colleagues are plotting to replace him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While 31 percent thought Starmer and his team had changed the country in the right way, \u201cbut not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,487,6659,32,33,393,4884,40,774,807,384,1144,47,48,712,16,15,49,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-958414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-cost-of-living","11":"tag-crisis","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-elections","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-immigration","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-nigel-farage","20":"tag-northern-ireland","21":"tag-poll","22":"tag-rights","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116570778949344701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958414","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=958414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}