Is Keir Starmer's legacy a good one?

Keir Starmer's legacy scrapes a passing grade from refnation, 53% to 47%, a six-point margin that on 53 votes comes down to a mere three ballots. This is not a verdict so much as a coin-toss with a Labour tilt — the kind of result that flatters no one's talking points.

The real story is gender, not age. Women who voted split 13-7 in Starmer's favour, a clear 65% yes, while men divided almost exactly down the middle at 13-14. That gap, wider than anything the age brackets produced, suggests the PM's stock holds up better with women than with men on this platform, echoing a divide that has shadowed Labour's polling more broadly.

Age, by contrast, offered no clean story. The platform's largest bloc, 25-34s, gave Starmer his best number (59% yes of 29 votes), while the youngest cohort, 16-24, tipped narrowly against him. Everyone over 35 was too thin in number to read with confidence, though none of those small groups broke decisively either way.

A legacy this early in a premiership, still being written amid NHS waits and squeezed budgets, was always going to divide opinion rather than settle it — and that is exactly what the numbers show.