How do Britons feel about the first 100 days of Labour government?
Half of Labour voters are disappointed by Starmer’s government, with four in ten Britons feeling the country is in a worse state than before the election
This Sunday, it will have been 100 days since Keir Starmer became prime minister and formed the first Labour government in over 14 years. While still only a fraction of the way through this parliament, it has been an eventful few months and a period that has taken its toll on Labour’s popularity.
After just three months in power, six in ten Britons (59%) disapprove of the government’s record so far, with only one in six approving (18%).
Keir Starmer’s popularity has also sunk, with 63% of Britons seeing him unfavourably and just over a quarter (27%) still holding a positive view of the prime minister, making him as unpopular as Nigel Farage.
Three in ten Britons (30%) say they had expected Labour to do well in government, but have been left disappointed by what they have seen so far, with only one in eight (12%) saying their positive expectations have been met. For a further 37% of Britons Labour’s poor performance is what they were expecting in the first place.
Perhaps most alarmingly for the government, nearly half of those who voted Labour in the election (47%) say they had positive expectations of Starmer’s government but feel let down so far, with only three in ten (30%) feeling Labour has done as well as they had hoped.
Few Britons (9%) believe the country is in a better state for Labour having taken the reins of power, including only a quarter of Labour voters (24%). The public are predominantly split between those who see no real change so far (44%) and those who believe things have become worse (39%).
While this latter view is unsurprisingly most common to Labour’s right, with 70% of Conservatives and 82% of Reform UK voters saying the UK has gotten worse in the last 100 days, one in eight Labour voters (13%) agree.