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Labor has overtaken the Conservative Party for the first time since Boris Johnson became prime minister, an opinion poll showed.
The Opinium poll for The Observer newspaper gave Labor a three-point lead over the Conservatives, at 42%, compared with 39%.
He suggested that the Labor Party was ahead for the first time since July 2019, when Theresa May’s time in office was coming to an end, and that there is more support for the opposition leader. Sir keir starmer than Mr. Johnson.
Sir Keir Starmer has been climbing in the polls
The poll also found that 55% of voters believe Sir Keir is ready to lead the country and 40% believe that Labor is equipped to form the next government.
It is the latest poll to suggest a decline in public confidence in Johnson’s – and the government in general – handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the beginning of the year, 65% of the voters surveyed supported the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, but in June, a YouGov poll for Sky News found that the majority of Britons (51%) believed the government was mishandling it.
And the latest survey showed that the Johnson administration’s discharge of the pandemic had dropped to 30%.
Sir Keir’s poll ratings rose significantly in the first 100 days since he became Labor leader.
A YouGov poll in June found that voters were more likely to compare him to Tony Blair and is already seen as a clear break with Jeremy Corbyn, who led Labor to its worst electoral defeat in decades in December.
Jeremy Corbyn led Labor to its biggest defeat in decades
Sir Keir’s time at the helm has been dominated by COVID-19, on which he has pinned Johnson on the details in the Prime Minister’s Questions and argued that the UK government was “slow in blocking, slow in testing. , slow to crawl. “
He has also implemented swift and decisive reforms to his party’s image, replacing the powerful secretary general with a more centrist figure, cracking down on anti-Semitism, and fire Rebecca Long-Bailey, loyal to Corbyn from the shadow cabinet.
When the assumed leadership of his party from Corbyn in AprilSir Keir told Sky News it would be different “by showing what effective opposition looks like.”
He promised to work with Johnson to “do everything we can to defeat the coronavirus crisis” by “coming together” and “being constructive.”
The promise not to try to score political points for the pandemic was popular with voters, polls suggested.
But recently he has become increasingly critical of government decision-making.
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“I am quite prepared to accept that a government will make mistakes in a pandemic like this and one or two U-turns is probably a sign that a government is listening and then changing,” he added. Sir Keir recently told Sky News host Kay Burley.
“But when you have 12 in a row, the only conclusion is serial incompetence … Our country is better than that, we deserve better than that.”
