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Starmer has delivered key wins for the UK, so why is he so unpopular?

In World
May 25, 2025

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, and his wife Victoria Starmer serve tea and cake in Downing Street on May 5, 2025 in London, England.

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A year after work, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, obtained some key victories, including the firm recently of the main commercial agreements with the United States, India and the European Union that will boost the British economy and wages.

Opinion surveys paint a different image of their success.

A survey conducted by the Yougov pollster, published in mid -May, showed that the approval of the British public, the prime minister, has collapsed to a minimum record, with 69% of the voters who now have an unfavorable vision of the Starmer, while only 23% considered him enthusiastic.

More worrying for the leader of the Labor Party, the fall in the popular is concentrated among Labor voters, half of whom (50%) now have an unfavorable vision of the Starmer, an increase of 17 points since the last survey in mid -April. Meanwhile, the participation of Labor voters with a favorable opinion on it has fallen from 62% to 45% during the month.

With the things that seem to point in the right direction for the British economy, what is wrong with your prime minister?

Commercial agreements in the midst of national pressures

The United Kingdom leadership could be promoting its impressive record in recently commercial agreements, but cost of living pressures continue to worry common British voters, and companies are considering LED tax increases.

The annual inflation rate of the United Kingdom reached an expected 3.5% of Hailter -ran in April, more than 2.6% in March, according to the data published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday.

The data highlighted the growing pressures on British homes, since electricity prices, gas and other fuels increased 6.7% in the year until April. Meanwhile, water prices and Swerage added 26.1% in the month until April, marking the greatest monthly increase from at least February 1988, said the ONS.

British companies now face a greater fiscal burden as a result of government policies introduced in the “autumn budget”, as well as other measures considered that many economists are “anti-creation.” These include limits in immigration that will affect foreign workers, which are key to several sectors, an increase in the national minimum wage and the reforms to workers’ rights, which exert pressure on many small and medium enterprises.

As such, high trade agreements that promise economic growth and investment that will take time to feed are cold comfort for many British consumers and companies that fight at this time.

“In internal politics, this government has obtained well until now; we are going to give it a C-Minus,” said Kallum picking, chief economist of the United Kingdom of Peel Hunt, said Wednesday “Europe Early Edition” of CNBC. “[We’ve seen] Mainly measures against growth and that is what interrupted bond markets in recent months. “

In foreign and international politics, the government is “doing a pretty good job”, with its latest trade agreements a will for that, said picking.

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“Starmer has contained the downward risk that the United Kingdom and the United States could increase trade. It is not a good business, but it contains a downward risk. The United Kingdom Indian agreement is a real sign that the United Kingdom the press. The United Kingdom and the EU are attacking but, what is the alternative?” Hey Ash.

The great business leaders say they are happy with the General Travel Directorate of the British Government, with CS Venkatakrishnan, executive director of the Barclays group, Celtelling CNBC on Thursday that it was “absolutely on the way.”

“If you observe if you observe what they have achieved in recent weeks, they had commercial agreements with the United States, with Europe, with Europe, important commercial partners. They continue to repair a relationship with Europe, which said the need.

The United Kingdom government is on its way and focuses on growth, says the CEO of Barclays

The inflationary pressures, he said, were evident, but they still did not lead to the “consumer anguish,” believed the Barclays executive.

“In fact, we are seeing that the duct continues the strength of the consumer, but it comes because the people who handle their balances and their finances with prudence. [they’re] Economization The labor market is still strong. But as you see … people are worried about inflation. People are concerned about the cost, whether they are winter fuel invoices or if it is a more generalized inflation of tariffs, and the only real response to that is growth, what this government focuses on and what we want to help them. “

Personality problem

Although the nuances welcome the quieter and less rhombath of Keir Starmer’s leadership than politicians such as the reform leader UK Nigel Farage, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, continues to face the criticism that does work.

CNBC has contacted the Labor Party to comment on the qualifications of the Starmer survey and is waiting for an answer.

“Starmer has great positive – [signing] The commercial agreements “for one, Bill Blain, strategist and founder of Wind Shift Capital, said the lack of prime minister’s charism is a deficit.

“But he is boring, boring and precise. He is competent, but it is not a personality and lacks political charism … Farage has it on the swords. Boris Johnson also did,” he told CNBC Tesday.

The leader of the Labor Party of the British opposition, Keir Starmer and Shadow’s chancellor from La Hacienda, Rachel Reeves, react during a campaign event in a farm in Oxfordshire, Great Britain, July 1, 2024.

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“An additional problem is that Starmer lacks cabinet colleagues capable of creating the illusion of a smart leaders cabinet. Some are being installed in their roles, but most look at their depth. This is not part of Rishe Tar Ad. Who -Whooo.”

“The greatest problem is the narrative: the Labor present it as what does the right thing to control the expense, but it is counterproductive as insensitivity to their voters. They are perceived as cruel,” he said.

Starmer is reaching “under pressure,” Blain said, increasing the risk that rank legislators and work work “will rebel if surveys bite.”

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