I don’t give Keir Starmer enough credit. It is a massive achievement to come to power with a huge majority in Parliament and then, in just 18 months, halve your support in the polls, become the most unpopular Prime Minister in British polling history, and even have members of your own Cabinet facing allegations of plotting against you.

As Starmer likes to say, he rolled up his sleeves and got to work straight away, alienating nearly 10 million pensioners by cutting their winter fuel payments. Disabled people, small business owners, Birmingham bin men, you name it, he has picked the wrong side. Starmer is the anti-populist, remarkably adept at picking policies that convert no one and alienate millions.

Before Starmer perfected his anti-Midas touch on the UK population, he had practised successfully on the Labour Party membership, whom he continues to repel.

In 2023, Starmer told unhappy Labour members: “If you don’t like the changes we’ve made, I say the door is open and you can leave”. Hundreds of thousands of members did, and party membership continues to decline.

This year, 2026, will almost certainly be the year in which Green Party of England and Wales’ membership overtakes that of the Labour Party. The Greens have now reached 190,000 members (more than Labour had........

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