Devastating poll shows nearly half of Labour’s support has vanished amid constant calamity
Voters reportedly abandoning Sir Keir Starmer’s party for opponents on both the Left and Right
Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have led Labour through a tumultuous period (Image: Getty)
A damning new poll has shown that nearly half of Labour’s support has vanished since the 2024 election amid a series of catastrophic blunders. Plunging approval ratings for both the Prime Minister and his party have reached new depths in recent months as a series of flagship policies have been reversed.
The current -59 score is the worst the current Government has ever recorded – and they could sink even lower, as the latest snapshot was taken before the latest pubs tax debacle. Now pollster More in Common has shared a devastating new graph showing that while Labour is holding 54% of its 2024 voters, it is losing much of the rest hand over fist. Even more worryingly, it is losing backing to both parties on the Left and Right, with 11% of 2024 Labour voters saying they will vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform and 8% saying they now support the Liberal Democrats.
It has also lost 8% of voters to the Greens, but 11% who say they don’t know who they’ll support are believed to be more Left-leaning.
It comes after a tumultuous period for Labour, during which it has repeatedly changed course on key policies and is said by many to have broken manifesto commitments.
Its first major decision, to cut winter fuel payments to most pensioners, was reversed amid an enormous public backlash. The vast majority of pensioners now remain eligible.
Cuts to disability benefits in a bid to slash Britain’s swollen welfare bill were humiliatingly abandoned in the wake of furious opposition from Labour MPs.
The party also announced an end to the two-child benefit cap in November’s Budget, despite suspending seven party MPs who previously voted in favour of scrapping it.
The autumn financial statement itself was widely regarded as a farce, as Chancellor Rachel Reeves had hinted at income tax rises but then backed down.
Her decision to freeze the thresholds at which taxpayers pay higher-rate levies – dragging more people into the top bands – is seen by many as breaking a 2024 manifesto promise not to raise taxes on working people.
The final embarrassment of 2025 came with inheritance tax changes for farmers. The Government decided to end the 100% tax relief in place since the 1980s, but has raised the planned threshold from £1million to £2million after an excoriating backlash.
More voters could desert Labour after the latest climbdown on business rates, which many pubs said would have landed them with bills of thousands of pounds and forced some to close.
