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Labour popularity plunges to new low despite Starmer reset

YouGov poll shows more people than ever disapprove of the Government as net approval rating hits -59 Daily Telegraph 07/01/26 The Labour Government’s popularity has plunged to a new low despite attempts by Sir Keir Starmer to reset his premiership. A YouGov tracker monitoring the popularity of the current administration shows the Government’s net approval rating is now -59, its lowest since Sir Keir took power. Seventy per cent of voters now disapprove of the Government, according to polling carried out on Jan 5 – an increase on the previous peak of 69 per cent. Rishi Sunak’s government had a record net approval score of -63 in October 2022, weeks into taking office. Baroness May’s low point was -61 in May 2019, while Liz Truss’s government recorded a nadir of -68, also in October 2022. The amount of people who approve of Labour’s performance in office has also fallen, reaching a joint record low of 11 per cent. The last time so few voters approved of Sir Keir’s administration...
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Farage unveils London mayoral candidate to take on Khan

Farage unveils London mayoral candidate to take on Khan Daily Telegraph 07 January 2026 12:14pm GMT Reform UK has vowed to oust Sir Sadiq Khan by promising an “all-out war” on crime in London. Nigel Farage unveiled Laila Cunningham, a former public prosecutor, as the party’s candidate for the next London mayoral elections in 2028. She told a press conference on Wednesday morning that safety for Londoners was the first duty of the mayor, and that if elected she would bring in more visible policing and zero tolerance for criminal behaviour. “There’ll be a new sheriff in town and I’ll be launching an all-out war on crime,” she declared. Mrs Cunningham, a Reform UK councillor and mother of seven, defected to the party from the Tories last year, warning of an epidemic of knife crime in the capital. She also vowed to scrap London’s controversial Ultra Low Emissions Zone (Ulez) and automate Tube trains to stop its drivers going on strike. And she called on Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropo...
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‘No point in working harder’: the rise of part-time Britain

Millions are taking action to avoid being punished for working harder Daily Telegraph 02/01/26 During his 30-year career as a cardiac surgeon, Money reader Alan Edwards** never considered working part-time. The job was stimulating, the pay was good, and reducing your hours “wasn’t the done thing”. “I enjoyed it enormously but it was physically extremely demanding,” he says. “You’d go to bed, then get a phone call at 1am, head back to the operating theatre, get back home at 6am, then be back to work at 7:30am or so to do a heart transplant. I don’t know how I did it.” Edwards’ adult children – who are both doctors themselves and now have children of their own – have chosen a different approach. The combination of childcare pressures and high income taxes persuaded them to reduce their hours. One works four days a week, the other just three days. Edwards can see the wisdom of doing so. Decades of well-paid work mean he has accrued a pension pot worth more than £600,000. But the...
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The radical Reform plan to propel Nigel Farage into No 10

Stepping inside the party’s headquarters, The Telegraph is granted exclusive access to an insurgent force preparing for power Daily Telegraph 03/01/26 A country recovering from political post-traumatic stress disorder, with its leaders promising renewal that never materialises. Fundamental structural and economic issues marked by soaring debt and rising unemployment remain unresolved. And an insurgent force from the Right, led by an unconventional figure, to supplant the Tories. The parallels between 1990s Canada and 2025 Britain are striking. Look closely, and Nigel Farage has been drawing them for over a decade. The difference now is that people are listening. For much of his political life, Farage has been cast by enemies and opponents as a nuisance, a dilettante, even a lunatic. He could split parties, panic leaders – Sir Keir Starmer has claimed a Reform government would keep him up at night – and dominate media cycles. But run the country? Even now, many remain sceptical t...
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Why Trump attacked Venezuela and what’s next for Maduro

The most audacious US military venture since the killing of Osama bin Laden typifies muscular new US foreign policy Daily Telegraph 03/01/26 Within hours of the first US air strikes on Caracas, Donald Trump announced the seizure of his quarry. Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan dictator, had already been “captured and flown out of the country” along with his wife, declared Mr Trump on his Truth Social network, which might explain why helicopters were seen clattering across the night sky above the capital. Whatever else may follow, Mr Trump can claim to have executed the swiftest regime change operation in modern history and America’s most audacious military venture since the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011. To have removed Mr Maduro so rapidly must have required the co-operation of Venezuelans on the ground, almost certainly including some of the country’s military chiefs. He has now gained the dismal distinction of being the first Latin American president to be overthrown by th...
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Out-of-touch voters must stop letting our poor Government down

A Labour ally says it’s ‘nuts’ that the public thinks Starmer is worse than Johnson or Truss. When will we see the error of our ways? Daily Telegraph 02/01/26 Michael Deacon After East Germany’s communist regime found itself having to repel an uprising by more than a million citizens in 1953, the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote a short satirical poem, entitled Die Lösung – or, in English, The Solution. Supporters of the regime, it noted dryly, believed that “the people” had “squandered the confidence of the government”. In which case, the poem concluded, would it not make sense “for the government/ To dissolve the people/ And elect another?” It was hard to avoid recalling those immortal words while reading an article this week in the Financial Times, in which pollsters and other expert observers were asked how on earth our own Government has become so unprecedentedly despised. Indeed, Ipsos says that Sir Keir Starmer is now the most unpopular prime minister in the ...
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Welcome to Starmer’s marshmallow dictatorship

Welcome to Starmer’s marshmallow dictatorship Liberal democracy has more in common with authoritarian regimes than its proponents admit Daily Telegraph 22/12/25 Sam Ashworth-Hayes It’s been a strange year in Britain. Downing Street is occupied by a cabal of human rights lawyers, obsessed with the attempt to shift human nature a degree or two closer to the Fabian ideal; the result has been a steady ratcheting of the rhetorical commitment to the grand theories of liberty and democracy, and an equally steady squeeze on the actual liberties that allow that democracy to function. In the last few days, the Electoral Commission has come out to criticise the Government for delaying local elections, stating that the official rationale is not “legitimate”. Downing Street has retreated further into itself, cutting traditional media sessions that offer an opening for press scrutiny. And the internet regulator Ofcom is drawing up plans to prevent social media users seeing posts with “potenti...
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