Keir Starmer became Prime Minister in July 2024 after Labour's election victory. His government has faced challenges including economic pressures, public service delivery, and internal party tensions. Recent polling indicates declining approval ratings for both Starmer and Labour.
By 22 votes to 13, this chamber said Starmer should go on Monday — a clear win for the Yes side, though not the rout the topline might suggest once you look at where the votes actually sat. The 26-point margin flatters a result that was closer among the biggest single bloc of voters than the overall number implies.
The 25-34s, who made up half the entire vote, split a much tighter 56-44, while the smaller 16-24 and 35-44 cohorts ran hotter for resignation at 67% and 75% respectively. The single over-65 voter went the other way entirely, though with n=1 that's a curiosity rather than a trend.
Gender told a similar story of enthusiasm gaps rather than opposite camps: men backed Yes by 68% against women's 54%, a 14-point gulf that echoes the sort of male-female divergence on leadership questions seen since Brexit-era polling first made "trust in the PM" a gendered metric. Nobody here disputed that Starmer's position looks shaky — the argument, such as it was, was over degree.
A government battered by falling approval finds no comfort in this chamber, but the softer numbers among younger women suggest the anti-Starmer coalition is broader than it is deep.
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