Keir Starmer has surpassed Tony Blair. After butcher of Baghdad Blair’s landslide victory in 1997, he went on to lose voters at each subsequent election. This saw him securing the following vote shares:
- **1997:**43.3%.
- **2001:**40.7%.
- **2005:**35.2%.
This slide demonstrated that Blair’s re-heated Thatcherite politics didn’t resonate with the British public. Bad as this was, however, it was nowhere near as dramatic as what Starmer has achieved:
Labour have lost half of their voters since the 2024 general election, and the Tories and Lib Dems have lost over a third each.
All the major parties have seen a fall in voter retention compared with 4 months ago. pic.twitter.com/xOUjaBvJs7
— cez (@cezthesocialist) April 14, 2026
Starmer breaking records
The two-party system of British politics has broken down. As this recent YouGov poll shows, we now have five parties within 10 percentage points of one another:
POLL | Reform lead by 5pts
Ref: 24% (=)
Con: 19% (=)
Grn: 18% (+2)
Lab: 17% (+1)
Lib: 13% (=)
Res: 4% (=)
YP: 0% (-1)
— Seats —
SNP: 47
Poll: @YouGov, 12-13 Apr (+/- vs 7 Apr) pic.twitter.com/m0PQxoBh26
— Stats for Lefties
(@LeftieStats) April 14, 2026
Starmer clearly bears responsibility for this, because he’s the man at the top. At the same time, Starmer didn’t introduce dishwater neoliberalism to the Labour Party; he simply ran with it.
Sooner or later, the public were going to wake up and realise there was no difference between the underlying politics of Labour and the Tories. Now that’s happened, Labour are losing voters, and they’re particularly losing them to the left:
According to the most recent YouGov poll, 40% of Labour voters are switching to further left parties and just 10% are switching to Reform. pic.twitter.com/NL8Wsvq2s0
— Stats for Lefties
Labour have bent over backwards to appeal to Reform voters, and this is the end result of that.
Predictable
The Canary and others warned Labour that copying the far-right wouldn’t help, but they wouldn’t listen.
For some voters, they saw Labour agreeing with Reform, and they decided this meant Nigel Farage was right along.
For many more, they saw Labour gleefully talking about deporting human beings, and they thought ‘fuck this‘.
Lab is now losing far more votes to Greens (7.4pts) than to Reform (3.6pts).
Overall, a majority of 2024 Lab voters are now backing other parties, and a whopping 70% of those are fleeing leftward.
Lab’s collapse is not the result of a right-wing surge, but of left-wing dissent. pic.twitter.com/OpdGfeLzw2
— Stats for Lefties
Starmer clearly can’t come back from this.
The question is whether the Labour Party can launch a comeback once he’s gone.
Featured image Cez the Socialist
By Willem Moore
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