🆕 Keir Starmer's net approval rating has fallen further in our latest tracker. It now sits at minus 33 points, which is a drop of 44 points since his post election high. Perhaps explains why this weekend's reset was necessary.
98% of the adult cares homes closed to protect people from harm were run by for profit companies. And 90% of children's homes. Time to end this absurdity. Core public services should not be cash cows for private equity. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Study finds more than 90% of facilities for children and 98% of those for adults that were closed down were run for profit
At the risk of activating all those who say this is meaningless, here’s a UK council election tonight: Marton (Blackpool) Council By-Election Result: ➡️ RFM: 38.8% (+29.3) 🌹 LAB: 28.0% (-23.0) 🌳 CON: 21.3% (-18.2) 🙋 IND: 7.0% (New) 🔶 LDM: 2.8% (New) 🌍 GRN: 2.1% (New) (via Election Maps)
Labour's claim that taxes on average earners are at a 70-year high is demonstrably untrue, if only we could have an honest debate about taxes and spending. steverayson.com/the-unpopula...
Steve Rayson, author of 'The Fall of the Red Wall - The Labour Party No Longer represents People Like Us' and 'Badgeland - 1980s Dreams, Demos & Defeats. Memoir of a Labour Party Young Socialist'.
Context for Rachel Reeves’s investment drive: the UK has had the lowest investment in the G7 for 24 of the last 30 years.
🆕 After some tough headlines this week the Starmer slide in approval has continued. His net approval now sits at -27, roughly the same level as Rishi Sunak was at when he called the election and a fall of 38 points since July.
Today's Inside Politics, featuring some exclusive polling from Ipsos about how Labour and the Conservatives are perceived at the moment:
New Conservative leader must reshape image, while Keir Starmer’s party seen as increasingly ‘extreme,’ poll finds
They are definitely getting prettier, though the message for the Conservatives remains chase the Reform vote at your peril. The average values positions of voters by how they voted in 2019 and 2024. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
If there was ever an industry that needs to be nationalised. - Southern Water makes plans to tanker supplies from Norway’s fjords on.ft.com/4eg1cta
Threat of drought and water shortages is pushing UK utility to make contingency arrangements