Opinium figures, which will raise further concerns among Labor about the performance of the party leader, show that the prime minister has a two-point lead over his opponent. It also reveals that Starmer’s party holds a small two-point lead, compared to a three-point lead in the last poll a fortnight ago. Labor garnered 36% of the vote, with the Tories gaining one point against 34%. The Liberal Democrats are at 13% and the Greens at 6%. Johnson’s low acceptance scores have improved slightly to -27, compared to -30 two weeks ago. Starmer has an approval rating of -6, unchanged from two weeks ago. While 28% believe that Johnson would become the best prime minister, 26% chose Starmer. It comes with Labor MPs still feeling melancholy about Starmer’s performance on the prime minister’s questions on Wednesday. Hopes for this meeting were high after the vote of confidence of the Tories MPs for Johnson’s leadership, a move that left the Prime Minister deeply wounded with 148 votes against him. However, many of the Labor class considered Starmer’s performance to be unchanged and criticized his line of questioning. Even some Tory rebels were confused by Starmer’s performance, saying it helped Johnson regain some stability after the vote of confidence. Angela Reiner, the deputy leader of the Labor Party, also suggested that Starmer looked too much like a lawyer in public and should “put a little more joy” into his speeches. Another shadowy minister agreed. “It’s a lot, ‘here’s the problem and that’s the solution.’ “But there is no sense in what the wider project is.” His team says Starmer’s main task was to repair the party’s internal affairs after the conflict during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. They are also aiming for the party’s next congress in the autumn so far to present more details of their plans – adding that Labor is making progress with significant groups of voters. Recent polls also show that the party has a clear double-digit lead in the June 23 election in Wakefield, the kind of seat it will need to win again if it hopes to win a majority or form a government in the next election. A senior Labor source said: “We know what needs to be done from now until the next elections and we choose everything on the list. “If you said in the morning after the 2019 elections that the Labor Party could return to a term, people would have laughed at you. “But the work that Keir has done to reform the party, often without fanfare, means we can talk seriously about winning the next election. The fact that we came out of the hole we were in was never a given. “Having dealt with the party mechanism at the last congress, the plan has always been that the next one will focus on drawing up our plans for Britain. “There is no complacency, but we remain confident in the strategy we have to bring Keir to No. 10.”
