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Fact-check: Keir Starmer’s approval score is not lowest on record for UK prime ministers
euronews (in English)
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05/12/2024
Social media users have falsely claimed Keir Starmer’s net favourability score makes him the least-popular prime minister in British history.
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Is Keir Starmer's approval rating the lowest in UK history?
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Social media users have been claiming that Sir Keir Starmer has the worst approval rating on record
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for any UK Prime Minister.
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This TikTok post, first spotted by PA Media, shows a screenshot of another post on X
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which claims that Keir Starmer's approval rating of minus 38 is a new record in British politics.
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We found this claim to be false. Let's get down to the facts.
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This line chart in the post can be traced back to fieldwork carried out in early October
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by the organisation More In Common.
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They asked over 2,000 people whether they thought Starmer was doing a good or bad job as Prime Minister
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to calculate his net favourability.
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At minus 38, it was the lowest favourability score logged for Starmer by any polling company at that time.
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But the claim that it's the worst approval rating for any British Prime Minister is not true.
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More In Common put former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's approval rating at minus 41 in July this year.
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Polling company YouGov has in the past scored him as low as minus 49.
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Other polls have put several other Prime Ministers' favourability rating at an even lower score.
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Theresa May fell to minus 49 in 2019 and Boris Johnson hit minus 53 in 2022.
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And in October 2022, Liz Truss became the least popular UK Prime Minister in polling history
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when YouGov research put her at minus 70.
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So while it is true that Starmer's own approval rating has plummeted since he was elected in July,
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he is still far from becoming the least popular British Prime Minister in polling history.
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