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The Duran Podcast

Starmer popularity problems... Solution, delay elections

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4.5738 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Starmer popularity problems... Solution, delay elections


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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in the UK. And it looks like we have

0:06.8

some voting that is going to be cancelled, some elections that are going to be cancelled,

0:13.4

courtesy of Kirstammer. What's going on? Well, indeed. And can I just say that this is an

0:19.8

unprecedented situation. I've been following British electoral politics, indeed, and can I just say that this is an unprecedented situation.

0:22.3

I've been following British electoral politics for all of my adult life,

0:27.0

and I've never seen anything like this happen,

0:29.6

and it's not getting in Britain anything like the kind of attention that it needs.

0:34.7

So we have the most unpopular government that I can remember. It is now

0:40.3

polling third behind reform of the Conservatives and that is very bad because the Conservatives

0:46.3

are polling very badly. They're still polling well below 20%, which is an astonishingly low figure for the Conservative Party. The Labour Party's

0:57.7

polling less than that. He's polling between 15 and 18%, depending on which opinion poll you

1:05.6

see. That is unprecedented for a governing party in Britain

1:12.3

over such an extended period.

1:14.7

I mean, there was brief moments,

1:17.5

for example, under Theresa May,

1:20.2

when the Conservatives dropped to those sort of levels.

1:24.2

But they quickly bounced back.

1:27.1

This time, the Labour Party is stuck at these abysmal levels and has been stuck there for

1:36.3

month after month after month.

1:39.3

I hear that when canvases from the Labour Party go and knock on doors in, you know, by-elections

1:48.2

that take place regularly in Britain, the language they receive from the people that they speak

1:55.6

to, the voters they speak to, is absolutely unprintable. So the Labour Party is in a very, very difficult

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