Fewer than one in five think the Prime Minister should stay on, while almost half of those who voted Labour at the 2024 General Election want him to go.
Sir Keir is likely to come under increased pressure to step down if Labour fares badly in next month’s local elections, and there is a growing belief within the party that it cannot win the next General Election with him as leader.
The new poll, by JL Partners, shows that a majority of voters in every region and age group want the Prime Minister to be replaced.
Asked “should Keir Starmer stay or go?”, 64% of people said he should go and 18% said he should stay. Of those who voted Labour in 2024, 46% said they wanted him to go now.
James Johnson, the co-founder of JL Partners, said: “I can’t think of a time I have seen the governing party’s own voters be in majority support of another election just two years later.
“The usual loyalty we see in British politics has become unbuckled as far as Labour is concerned, and that places the Prime Minister in a very perilous position indeed.”
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