"These are the fruits of a political project crafted by Morgan McSweeney, Starmer's recently departed chief of staff. It was smart politics, he clearly believed, to mislead the Labour membership into voting for him six years ago by offering leftwing policy pledges and then abandoning them. But the founding sin became the defining trait: voters routinely perceive this government to be innately deceitful and duplicitous."
"A plan to delay local elections abandoned in humiliating fashion, not because the PM realised it was the wrong thing to do, but because Farage raised a legal challenge and Starmer knew he would lose it. He says he's going to do something and then doesn't, the dog walker says. Her view is widely shared: according to YouGov, six in 10 Britons believe Starmer is untrustworthy, with just two in 10 believing the opposite."
Voters in south‑east Manchester express visceral contempt for the prime minister and disbelief when Keir Starmer's name is mentioned. A humiliating U‑turn on delaying local elections occurred after Nigel Farage raised a legal challenge that Starmer would likely lose. Public perception of duplicity traces to a strategy by Morgan McSweeney to win Labour membership support with leftwing pledges and later abandon them. YouGov finds six in ten Britons view Starmer as untrustworthy. Labour's 2024 coalition in Gorton and Denton is fragmenting toward Zack Polanski's Greens on the left and Reform UK on the right.
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