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Unopposed: why is Keir Starmer making life so easy for the PM?

The dangers of the Starmer-Johnson double act

20 March 2021

9:00 AM

20 March 2021

9:00 AM

If there is one thing worse than being talked about, it is not being talked about — and this is the fate beginning to befall Keir Starmer. He is at risk of becoming an irrelevance.

After not even a year of being Labour leader, Starmer finds his personal ratings on the slide: a YouGov poll this week showed his rating at minus 13, down from plus 22 last summer.

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