Keir Starmer and the Labour Party. | Page 1274 | AVForums Now that would shock people.. He also had the shameless Johnson and the Faragiste Tory press bursting to make trouble. LONDON Keir Starmer is reportedly considering hiring Sue Gray, the senior civil servant who investigated pandemic rule-busting parties in Boris Johnson's government, as his chief of staff. Sorting the protocol was a sensible bit of ground-clearing and confidence-building. Rishi Sunak during prime ministers questions on Wednesday. Poll says Keir Starmer worse choice for PM than Boris Johnson But its all part of a major play by the opposition to woo firms, while key moneymen from the Blair era are being tasked up with filling the partys coffers once again. Left-wing party members who joined during Corbyns tenure have been fleeing in droves, depriving Labour of desperately needed income to fight the next general election. Gray, currently in a top job in the Cabinet Office, was tasked with investigating multiple reports of lockdown rule . August 20, 2022 7:00 am (Updated August 21, 2022 9:35 am) Labour holds a 10-point lead over the Conservatives as Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak attack each other in public - but Sir Keir Starmer's . Rishi Sunak is shaping up to be a prime minister Keir Starmer should be wary of,Sunak's handling of the NI protocol suggests a leader - and a Tory party - with more left in the tank than some think, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Speaking alongside Blair-era Minister Peter Mandelson at a business roundtable in late January, Starmer said he wanted to extract as much as I can from you, have a really grown-up conversation, and also for you to see that it is possible to mold, have your fingerprints on what were doing, two people presenttold POLITICO. In late June, he formally ditched those promises, saying Labour would be starting from scratch. A YouGov poll carried out this week showed 45% of the public were against the RMT strike, with 37% in favour. Copyright 2014 - 2023. Rishi Sunak is shaping up to be a prime minister Keir Starmer should be Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB KC (/ k r /; born 2 September 1962) is a British politician and barrister who has served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party since 2020. But that was before the UK's tremendously successful COVID-19 vaccination programme got under way in December, something that seems to have been among the reasons for Mr Johnson's popularity. By logging in, you confirm acceptance of ourPOLITICO Privacy Policy. In his party conference speech in which Corbyn supporters were reduced to impotent heckling Starmer derided Johnson as a trivial politician; in the Commons, Starmer repeated the line the joke is wearing thin. But dont underestimate this prime minister, either. The polls may be indicating a huge win for Labour at the next general election, but here's a reason Keir Starmer shouldn't be celebrating yet: Almost two in three voters want a new political party to take on the Conservatives and Labour, a shock new study of trust in politics has found. No Tory leader can simply declare the convulsions of the past seven years over, or announce that from now on, they will be competent and consensual. Well, Starmer saw Boris off, and his successor Liz Truss - and Labour have had an opinion poll lead for the last 474 days. Labour leader Keir Starmer addresses the annual Labour Party conference in Brighton, England, on 9 September 2021 (AFP) Keir Starmer's wait-it-out approach may finally be . Instead, she has frozen record high fuel bills, but it is taxpayers, not business, who will face the burden of repaying the 150bn ($170bn) costs further down the road. Starmer has transplanted many of Blairs favorite donor point-people into his close circle to build a powerhouse fundraising team. Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves 11 Downing Street, LondonJames Manning. Keir Starmer mulls Partygate investigator Sue Gray for chief of staff Collapse. While 50% of voters in Britain still see the Government Sunak leads as incompetent, the Governments net competency rating is only marginally lower now than it was in late January (down one point to -34%). Starmers Labour increasingly looks like a pale replica of the modern Conservative Party, which publicly extols the virtues of unfettered markets while privately skewing the economic battle-space in big businesss favour - a covert socialism, but for the rich only. If you had said the morning after the 2019 election Labour could be back in one term, people would have laughed at you. Meanwhile, he has differentiated Labour simply by eschewing the more indefensible forms of predatory capitalism the current Conservative leadership embraces. These are people that dont have to be spending their time and money doing this, a Labour shadow Cabinet minister said. Labour extended its lead nationally to 27%, the widest margin it has held since Sunak became PM in October, while also opening up a lead of 28% in the Red Wall (another record lead with Sunak as Prime Minister). Boris Johnson makes a better prime minister than Keir Starmer would despite Partygate, the cost of living crisis and the confidence vote in Johnson held by his MPs, according to the latest Observer poll. Latest news, analysis and comment on German politics and beyond. More broadly, this will be central to boosting the nations productivity going forward. For Keir Starmer, things look much rosier. It is a dramatic capitulation for a party in opposition that grew out of the activities of the trade union movement. Voices Keir Starmer can afford to be polite to Liz Truss for one key reason - he knows he is winning. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, The opinion polls have turned in the Labour leaders favour vindicating his strategic patience, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. A People Polling poll for GB News, conducted on February . burden of repaying the 150bn ($170bn) costs, Starmer has hollowed out left-wing politics in the UK, Palestinian and socialist groups further sidelined as Labour email comes to light, UK: Oxford students report racial profiling at event hosting Israeli ambassador. This is especially true for Labour voters, more than half of whom blame Truss (44%) or Sunak (10%) for the current crisis while only 11% blame global events. In some ways, the content of the protocol deal was the relatively straightforward bit. He speaks candidly about his drinking since childhood and deliberately avoiding Keir Starmer, with the Labour leader yet to make a decision on his membership of the party. Adam Drummond, Opinium's head of political polling, said: "Keir Starmer's ratings have taken a tumble as Labour voters begin to fear that he isn't the one to lead the party back to power. She has managed the difficult feat of appearing to be both opportunistic and a political ideologue for big business who lacks the popular touch. "However, at least then Labour could console itself that their leader was new and making a positive impression. One Labour MP described Alli as absolutely lovely and very persuasive. Referring to his status as one of the worlds only openly gay Muslim politicians, they added: You should never underestimate someone from his background who has fought that hard for LGBT rights.. Jean-Claude Juncker says protocol deal better for EU than some in UK Like the Tories, Starmer sees the economy in terms of a battle between the incompatible demands of employers - the state and big business - on one side, and workers on the other. Explore the live extension of our journalism, The wonk's survival guide to the EU Green Deal, Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize winner sentenced to 10 years in jail, Turkeys opposition splits over candidate to fight Erdoan, Germany to Switzerland: We want your tanks, Calculated evil: How Putins forces use war crimes and torture to erase Ukrainian identity, Let us film MPs as they vote, says outgoing Sky News chief, WhatsApp panic stalks Westminster after mass leak of private messages, Why always Matt? Latest news, analysis and comment from POLITICOs editors and guest writers on the continent. Enough is Enough unequivocally denounces a heartless establishment that, it implies, includes Starmer himself. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015. It also enjoys some electoral advantages over Labour. politics . In my dealings with Gray when I was political secretary, I found her . The DUP was not allowed to hijack the launch and mobilise the European Research Group. Only England and Wales jurisdiction apply in all legal matters. But Starmers success - assuming it can be maintained - has come at an extraordinarily high political price. The following polls asked about voters' opinions on Rishi Sunak, leader of the Conservative Party since 24 October 2022 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 25 October 2022. BMG Research interviewed a representative sample of 2,091 GB adults online between 16 and 18 August. Starmer had begun the year in a strong position, ready for the next leg of the long march up Labours electoral mountain. The Opinium figures, which will raise further concerns within Labour over the party leader's performance, shows that the prime minister has a two-point lead over his opponent. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is trailing Boris Johnson as the British public's preferred prime minister by 17 percentage points, according to a new poll. Having Tony introduce Keir at the next Labour conference? And further underscoring how divorced she is from the public mood, Truss intends to reverse a planned rise in what is a historically low rate of corporation tax. Its 100-a-month business group the Rose Network has more than 500 members, up from 300 less than three years ago. It is still more likely that Sunak will oversee the end of a long period of Conservative government than its renewal. "The Labour leader has taken a significant fall across all metrics in the last two weeks, particularly being a strong leader, looking like a prime minister in waiting, and being able to get things done. Advocacy group the Labour Muslim Network (LMN . The appetite for a more radical approach to the Tory government has been highlighted by the rapid rise of Mick Lynch, leader of the striking Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union (RMT). Only 17% say a Conservative government with Rishi Sunak as prime minister. His team say Starmers main task has been repairing the partys internal workings after the strife during Jeremy Corbyns leadership. Starmer clearly believes very firmly in the corrupt FPTP system as . How the PM could block sleaze watchdog's advice on Gray hire and if Labour will ignore him, Opinion | Boris Johnsons 'jobs for Tory cronies' legacy is still alive and kicking, Tory MPs furious at Starmer hiring Sue Gray as Rees-Mogg calls her report 'left-wing stitch-up', publics view of the the Labour leader himself appears to be becoming more negative, Keir Starmer will have been hoping for a polling bounce following his big announcement on freezing energy bills, 'How bad are the pics? Lucy Powell described partygate investigator Sue Gray - who plans to join Labour as Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff - as "impartial" and "really good at her job". How Sir Keir Starmer's Labour would run a government - The Telegraph A poll by YouGov last week revealed 51% of voters say they would vote for Labour in a general election, with just 23% of people saying they would vote Tory. They are also targeting the partys next conference in the autumn as the moment to set out more detail of their plans adding that Labour is making progress with important groups of voters. Opinion Rishi Sunak. Starmer has refused to cash in on the most visible sign of growing public discontent at Tory policies that continue to redistribute wealth upwards. BMG are members of the British Polling Council and abide by their rules. Labour Leader: Keir Starmer VII | Page 203 | pink fish media Sunak was on top of the detail. . It was the last bit that was telling, implying that there was no one around him who was prepared to bring him bad news honest feedback being a basic requirement of any functioning organisation, as Starmer would have known from running the Crown Prosecution Service. The Labour leaders raft of broken promises on key issues likely to be close to the hearts of voters as their living standards collapse risks casting him as unreliable and untrustworthy. This, to me, points to a considerable reservoir of voter discontent with the available options on left and right.. LONDON: Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, has picked as his new chief of staff Sue Gray, a government official whose investigation helped catalyse the exit of Boris . In a speech in July he said rebooting the economy would be a Labour governments defining task. Boris Johnson makes a better prime minister than Keir Starmer would despite Partygate, the cost of living crisis and the confidence vote in Johnson held by his MPs . Most voters in Britain dont have Europe or Northern Ireland on their minds anyway. His party trails Labour by, Sunak has had luck along the way. While Starmer is seen as more austere, he has embraced the former PMs party financing strategy. Here's the reason voters can't be very keen on Keir Starmer Latest news, analysis and comment on defense in Europe and beyond. Public Sector. LONDON Keir Starmer wants big business to "mold" Labour's election plans and get its "fingerprints" on his policy agenda. Potential Tory rebels faced a pincer movement of private pressure at Westminster alongside assured ministerial actions on the national stage. Each pollster uses the following wording for this question: Some pollsters conduct surveys to compare figures who are not both party leaders. Support for the Labour Party has grown in the aftermath of the Autumn Statement, a new poll reveals today.Aaron Chown. And he is now trailing Sir Keir as the most popular candidate to be Prime Minister. UK Labour wants business 'fingerprints' on its plans as Blair's Political Monitor. 7 times Hancock hogged UK headlines, Chief of Staff - Maternity Cover (Brussels), Metsola wants Ukraine EU membership talks to start this year, Aggro-culture: Farmers protest brings Brussels EU Quarter to a standstill, Rishi Sunak says Whitehall must be impartial amid row over Grays Labour job. "Any opposition would be struggling against a government riding the success of the vaccine rollout and the last time the government's approval figures for the pandemic were this positive the Conservatives held a 17 point lead. Team Starmer will be watching the next few opinion polls very closely. Politics. War in Ukraine overturned the political landscape. Sunak had to market a compromise not just to the DUP, but also to a Tory party in which too many had become intoxicated with their own dogmas which is exactly why Sunak lost to Truss last summer. Even in the lowest months of the summer, there was no serious talk of a leadership challenge. Levys return to the fold has also provided a big boost to Labours fundraising clout. Interview with MP Neil Coyle after Commons suspension: Why the drinking Sir Keir Starmer - Labour Party Leader - One Touch Football 61 per cent want 'completely new type of political . Worryingly for Rishi Sunak, only a minority of his own voters, 43%, back a Sunak-led government when it comes to managing the economy. In addition to leading a party with a commanding position in our voting intention polls, Starmer himself holds healthy approval ratings in all our tracker polls. Neither Labour or the Cabinet Office denied a report by Sky News' that the Labour leader who current polls suggest could . Hopes for that encounter had been high following the confidence vote held by Tory MPs over Johnsons leadership, a move that left the prime minister deeply wounded with 148 voting against him. Sunaks challenge will be to convince the country that its current problems lie more with global events than his own party, but that will be very, very hard given how strongly people feel about this. The breach with Rayner was serious, and would continue to be for the rest of the year, but she was no threat to Starmers position as leader. When politics resumes next week, the Labour leader will have a (courteous) spring in his step March 2, 2023. in News. Only 29% of voters think Sir Keir looks like a prime minister in waiting, including 48% of people who voted Labour in 2019's general election. Close Blair ally and media entrepreneur Waheed Alli has been appointed by Starmer as the partys head of election fundraising. Posts; Latest Activity; Photos . Labours new HQ in Southwark is described by party officials as a serious upgrade, with the NEC member quoted earlier calling it a proper campaign HQ, like it was in 1997., The party has also been on a hiring spree in recent months, advertising for dozens of new positions across the country. The following polls asked about voters' opinions on Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats since August 2020. Poll says Keir Starmer worse choice for PM than Boris Johnson Sunak and Starmer Monthly Polling Report Card (February 2023) Robert Struthers of BMG told i: Keir Starmer will have been hoping for a polling bounce following his big announcement on freezing energy bills to tackle the energy crisis at the beginning of this week. These include the new constituency boundaries on which the next election will be fought, the reduction in the number of seats from Wales and Scotland, and the fact that the Tories need a smaller lead than Labour in the overall national vote to be the largest party at Westminster or to have an overall majority. The ex-PM said during his think tanks Future of Britain conference last year that he wants to help influence the policy agenda in Westminster over the next decade. In GB as a whole, the Governments net approval rating for its handling of these three issues now sits at -35% (down four points from late January), -49% (-7), and -39% (-3) respectively. How Sir Keir Starmer's Labour would run a government From 'wealth' taxes to net zero, this is how the would-be PM may act should his party's huge opinion poll lead see them through an election Windsor Framework gives enough to end Stormont stalemate, says Starmer Theres no complacency but we remain confident of the strategy we have to get Keir to No 10., Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. A survey of party members in March this year found that Tony Blair was just as popular with them as Jeremy Corbyn. It was, mathematically, the result of the government and prime minister enjoying a vaccine boost in popularity, but it prompted bitter Corbynites to remind Blairites how they had predicted that under any other leader Labour would be 20 points ahead. In March, Boris Johnson's net approval rating rose to +3, meaning that the PM now has a better net approval rating than Keir Starmer for the first time since April 2020. But theres no sense of what the wider project is.. . Sunak also gets to choose the election date. The MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark was hit with a five-day suspension today ( Friday, March 3 ), for his drunken, expletive-laden rants in Stranger's Bar last year . The choreography of the protocol deal was also bold. Keir Starmer is delighted she is hoping to join our preparations for government and our mission," the spokesperson said. When Starmer was running for leader, many of his supporters expressed how important it was that he looked like a prime-minister-in . Second, it confirmed that he may be starting to steer the Tory party towards a more moderate and pragmatic place. But the work that Keir has been doing to reform the party, often without fanfare, means that we can seriously talk about winning the next election. Boris Johnson's opinion poll lead over Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as the "best prime minister" for the UK evaporated on Monday, as Downing Street tried to stop the fuel crisis descending . The date range for opinion polls is from the 2019 United Kingdom general election, held on 12 December, to the present day. His decision to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos last month and his comments that he prefers the gathering to Westminster also reveal how comfortable Starmer is schmoozing with the global elite. Ursula von der Leyen, the European commission president, was well briefed. Keir Starmer is finally ahead in the polls - but at what cost? Mission: Possible. Keir Starmer is preparing for Government The Labour leader said he is glad the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is taking time to consider . 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