Starmer opposes everything and has no new ideas, public says in poll

Most voters think Labour has 'just opposed everything' rather than coming up with good ideas for the country, a poll found yesterday.

The survey by think-tank More in Common found that the majority of voters believe Labour has played a negative role in opposition.

Voters also told the poll that Sir Keir Starmer was wrong to suggest Jeremy Corbyn would have made a better prime minister than Boris Johnson in 2019.

Labour has faced criticism for its 'safety first' manifesto which is vague about the party's plans for power in many areas.

The new study suggests that, despite polls predicting Sir Keir will win by a landslide this week, most voters believe he has had little to offer in opposition.

Most voters think Labour has 'just opposed everything' rather than coming up with good ideas for the country, a poll found yesterday

Voters also told the poll that Sir Keir Starmer was wrong to suggest Jeremy Corbyn would have made a better prime minister than Boris Johnson in 2019

Just 34 per cent of voters said Labour had come up with 'good ideas for how to govern the country', while 47 per cent said it had 'simply opposed everything and not proposed anything new'.

Sir Keir has spent much of the campaign trying to distance himself from Mr Corbyn, whose shadow cabinet he served in for four years.

He has repeatedly refused to say whether he believed his 2019 claim that his hard-Left predecessor would make a 'great prime minister'.

But, in a TV debate he said he would have been a better candidate than Boris Johnson.

The new survey of more than 2,000 people found that voters took issue with Sir Keir's claim.

Only 28 per cent of voters said they would have preferred Mr Corbyn, while 46 per cent said Mr Johnson was the better candidate.

Even among Labour voters, fewer than half (47 per cent) backed Mr Corbyn, while 81 per cent of Conservative voters supported Mr Johnson.

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