Why even good politicians are unpopular these days
It’s not just Keir Starmer – political leaders are on the nose around the world, and it’s not all their fault. Decades of peace and affluence have raised expectations.
Last April, I wrote that Britain’s soon-to-be-elected Labour government would be disliked in “no time”. “No time” meant six months or thereabouts. Apologies for the naïveté.
Keir Starmer’s approval rating has dropped 45 percentage points in little over two months. His crime? Well, there has been a hint of financial sleaze, though on a scale so small as to bring home the relative innocence of British politics. A cut to pensioner perks, sensible on its own terms, looked bad next to a generous wage deal for NHS doctors.
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Janan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.
