Rachel Reeves 'could be gone within a year', Tom Jones tells GB News

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Sir Keir Starmer has been warned to "change course" after new polling showed that more than half of Britons see the Prime Minister unfavourably.A new poll by public policy research agency Public First, conducted for The Telegraph, showed that 53 per cent of voters hold an unfavourable view of Starmer, while 26 per cent view him favourably.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00Does Keir Starmer actually have any principles that he sticks to?

00:05Well, you have to look at his history and say, frankly, no.

00:10And were it not for laughing, I should pity him.

00:12So he is, I think he's on his third climb down next week.

00:17He's had a year in office.

00:19He's climbed down on the rape gangs inquiry.

00:23He's now climbed down on welfare as well.

00:27And he also, you turned on the cuts to winter fuel allowance, which I spoke to you about at the time.

00:36And this all just seems to confirm the growing sense that Starmer's government is really vulnerable to pressure

00:44and can't really deliver anything that it's trying to do, that it's setting out to do.

00:50And so, understandably, I think of all the prime ministers since Thatcher, this polling today shows that only Gordon Brown

00:59had a worse net approval rating at the same stage of their premiership.

01:03Now, of course, that doesn't include Liz Truss because she never got this far.

01:07But let's run through the greatest hits so far.

01:10Failure to deal quickly with the riots and the two-tier system in policing them.

01:18Huge trade union pay deals.

01:20The massive Chagos deal.

01:23Then trying to blame the Tories for the £22 billion black hole.

01:29Prisoner release of often quite violent criminals that they lied to the public about who they were releasing.

01:36Winter fuel U-turns, the rape gang refusal, and then the U-turn, and now the welfare benefit U-turn as well.

01:46So, really, you know, you can't blame the public for not liking this guy because every time he says something,

01:55the public just don't believe he's going to believe it next week.

01:58This is the problem now.

02:01And to be fair to Keir Starmer and the Labour government, they do seem to have got NHS waiting lists down.

02:08And we do know from endless polls that up there with immigration, NHS is one of the big talking polls.

02:16Now, they have got those waiting lists down, haven't they?

02:18Yes, they have.

02:21And actually, that's one of the few areas that he's won public approval on.

02:28But the fact is, it's just not enough.

02:31Because at the same time, you know, the migration situation is getting a lot worse.

02:38And he's having all these very public failures.

02:40So, the fact that he's succeeding in one area, the NHS, even though the NHS is very important to the electorate,

02:48it's just not enough to shift the needle.

02:51Obviously, Tom, as we heard from an earlier commentator, it is quite difficult to, you know, dethrone a Labour leader.

03:00So, it does sound like he is going to be here until the next election.

03:04But what can he do to turn this around?

03:06And when we have got the autumn statement coming up pretty soon, it'll be here before we know it.

03:10What can Keir Starmer do?

03:12What should he do to actually change these polls round?

03:17Well, frankly, change course completely, really.

03:20You know, they are doing lots of kind of technocratic reforms on migration around the edges.

03:29Instead of actually tackling the poor factors, the overly generous welfare settlement,

03:33the overly generous asylum acceptance rates that are bringing people here in the first place.

03:39So, they've got to tackle that instead of doing, you know, just handing the French more money.

03:45The, frankly, I think Rachel Reeves will probably go before the next election.

03:51She might even go within a year because the economic strategy is simply not working.

03:56There's way too much tax.

03:58There's too much tax on employment.

03:59There's too much tax on employers and it is stifling the economy.

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