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Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Misplaced Respect



More than three out of five people think Starmer does not respect them – poll

While in opposition, Sir Keir sought to make the concept of “respect” central to his pitch to voters, and research from UCL suggested this played a key role in convincing the public to back him and the Labour Party.

But a survey from More In Common and the UCL Policy Lab, published on Tuesday, suggested 63% of the public now thought the Prime Minister did not respect people like them, almost twice the 32% that thought so before the 2024 election.

And while 41% of the public thought Sir Keir did respect them before the election, that figure has fallen to 24%.



24% think Starmer respects them? Good grief.

You find no difficulty in tolerating him then? - you have a respect for a political platitudinarian as insensible as an ox to everything he can't turn into political capital. You think his monumental obtuseness suited to the dignity of the English gentleman.

George Eliot - Daniel Deronda (1876)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can't help thinking that "......Starmer does not respect them .." , should read "....Starmer holds them in contempt...." .
Perhaps it's just me?
Penseivat

A K Haart said...

Penseivat - not just you I reckon, the longer he continues the more people will see the contempt.