La metà degli elettori ritiene che Starmer sarà sostituito come primo ministro entro la fine del 2026, suggerisce il sondaggio
https://news.sky.com/story/half-of-voters-think-starmer-will-be-replaced-as-prime-minister-by-end-of-2026-poll-suggests-13486956
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If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results then Labour would be insane to do this, or willfully ignoring the fact that the Tories played musical chairs with the PM’s office and it did sweet fuck all. Shuffling the top job doesn’t cut it anymore, your party either has balls to do what’s necessary or it doesn’t. This one doesn’t.
“Let’s do the thing that made the Tories so incredibly unpopular”
So that also means half of voters don’t think Starmer will be replaced as prime minister by the end of 2026.
Well, odds wise you get less than evens for exit date in 2026. For him to still be PM in 2029 at the GE it’s 5/1.
I think if the local elections go as they are predicted to go, he will soon be ousted after that.
Nice to see the red Tories might be doing what the blue ones did
Why? He’s not doing a particularly stellar job but he’s keeping the lights on. Can we not have a new PM so often that we compare them to the lifespan of a lettuce?
Half of voters admit to being brainwashed by the media and have no idea what Labour are actually doing for the country.
I don’t think he will be replaced during this stint, they’ll want to not be seen as repeating the Tories mistakes.
He’s being replaced next election though
This is what the Conservatives & Reform want, as soon as you replace Starmer they will double-down on whichever person replaces him and you’ll have a non-stop flurry of PMs like we did with the Conservatives.
I get that Starmer isn’t the most electric of persons, but the last thing we need for the stability of our country is a change or PM, it won’t magically improve the economy, in fact will likely hammer the markets as we get a “here we go again!” reaction.
Reform will do their usual “we want a general election, Labour are toast!” and the Conservatives will feel vindicated by the change of PM.
Christ, just let the guy get on with the job and tell the right-wing press to fuck off and concentrate on actual news, you know, like the Epstein files!
‘Keith’ will cling on until the May elections at which point his tenure will become untenable.
Even the potential postponing of 60+ local elections is working against him ….. The backlash against this gov is coming from both left and right.
Shame because there are some hard working local Lab councillors and they are going to feel the brunt of the anger against the ‘front bench’.
People don’t realise the extent of the rule and administrative changes the McSweeney and Mandelson faction put in place between 2020 and 2024. Another leader from their faction, with the same economic ideology and backed by the same right-wing donors and think tanks, is all but guaranteed, most likely Wes Streeting. At this point, they would clearly rather risk a Reform government, so long as their faction retains control of Labour. That, more than anything else, seems to be the only thing they genuinely believe in.
I think this is a case of people becoming addicted to the drama of politics. The Tories regularly changing leaders was a unique scenario, and one that I’d say probably harmed them more than helped them.
Even though we don’t operate on a presidential system, any change of PM is going to be met with calls for a general election. If Labour do this they’ll lose due to current polling. If they don’t do this their polling will drop further with people unhappy that they aren’t having one.
It’s been a year and a half roughly, the best option would be to just continue.
People are idiots. Heaven forbid we have some stability as a country with our leadership
I thought he’d be gone by December. No point changing him now. You’ll only be leading an unpopular party like Kemi.
The worst thing that could happen to this country at this moment is for any other party to get in power..they’re too soft and corrupt to not fight for british values and to only allow the UK to become pulled apart by the elite in the US.
If you love this country.
If you love British institutions.
If you love what it means to be truly British.
If you respect what the UK has done on the global stage throughout its history.
If you care deeply about your children and grandchildren.
If you want to see the UK stand on its own feet once again.
Hold fast !!
Don’t vote for reform
It’s true that Starmer has been a huge disappointment so far, but can we not normalise the UK changing leaders like they are socks please? Elections are meant to be every 4-5 years. The last Tory shitshow was, frankly, a total embarrassment and the leaders just got progressively worse and by the end it was clear that they were just making short term opportunistic choices in the name of popularity.
Governments need to make choices with long horizons. I’m sure some of the choices in the OP would make great leaders but they aren’t the ones people voted for. Starmer should get 5 years so he can do the unpopular things at the start which will pay off nearer the end.
It’s true that they essentially bottled some of the unpopular decisions to please their own backbenchers, but that doesn’t mean we want a country where every leader has to only do popular things all the time.
No they don’t , most also think reform is not the answer to anything
The other half of voters are more pessimistic about replacing him.
“I think he will be gone” != “I want him to be gone”
Why is everyone complaining here? People are not saying they want him replaced. Even if they want to, they don’t have any power
People are just concluding based on recent past and current news stories
Whether Starmer is replaced or not is up to Labour MPs
Why? What’s the reason? I’m genuinely baffled. Not being a popular charismatic guy is no reason to remove a PM, its insane.
Only at the will of Labour MPs. Sky has no say in the matter nor do the voters until the next election.
Im hoping with someone who has the guts to rejoin the EU.
Is there literally anyone who likes this guy? Everyone I’ve seen on the left despise the guy, ditto the right.
Would be pretty stupid for our country to start sacking prime ministers again, all it does is make us look like a laughing stock and harm the economy, wish people would just have some patience and give prime ministers a chance, he’s only been in a year and things take a long time to change due to bureaucracy and other things and if we’re gonna reduce our debt we need to convince the rest of the world we’re gonna stop acting so unpredictable.
So before the end of next year half of the country think that 20% of current MPs will throw their weight behind a potential replacement?
I mean it could happen but I don’t get the impression the party in the commons have much of an issue with him
And replace him with who?
Because you’re not having Andy Burnham. He’s ours and we’re keeping him.
Pointles., They have the same issues as the Tories had. Ie. Anyone who could replace them would ever be an outsider with no experience or competence and vocally supportive of every one of the current leaders’ fuckups. Everyone with both integrity and enough influence to potentially do something with it has been driven from the party, and the voters know it.
Whilst a bit lacklustre on the domestic front I don’t think he is that bad particularly compared to many of his predecessors. More importantly I don’t see as any of the alternatives within his own party eg Milliband, Burnham and others being compelling alternatives, Or any of the other parties being “viable” governments. Events in the next year may prove otherwise. I think “local” elections in May will be “noteworthy” for the low turnout if anything.
I’m pretty sure most of that half of voters don’t actually understand how our parliamentary democracy works. It seems a huge swathe of voters aren’t even aware of what the government is doing outside of what The Daily Mail, Express, Sun etc are telling them.
Prior question should be… given that’s what you expected of the last three prime ministers
IMO The guy is just not competent – like what has he achieved? Maybe some photo ops here and there with Trump, Ursula and Zelensky. But there is more to the job than photo ops. Energy prices – close to highest they have ever been! Water prices- again one of the highest! Infrastructure- crumbling and not getting better! Benefit Britain – no crackdown there! Illegal immigration – still ongoing! End of war in Gaza and Illegal occupation in Westbank- people still getting killed and homes still getting occupied by rogue illegal settlers! Guy has given only photos but nothing concrete!
Remember the average poll for the next General Election puts Farage in Number 10. This generates three outcomes 1) it’s correct 2) the average member of the British public isn’t that smart 3) both (or charitably 4) questionable Polling data).
He’s been a dead man walking for a long time now. Just a matter of when not if.
Need to oust the right from the labour party before its destroyed
I think he’ll get replaced after the May elections personally. I think this will be a mistake as the likely successors (probably Streeting) would be worse, and our problems are structural not down to Starmer’s leadership.
Most voters are politically clueless and just parrot whatever they see in the media or on social media.
Well considering a lot less than have of voters actually voted for him at the last election, that very much implies he has gone up vastly in popularity how the hell did that happen