SIR KEIR STARMER’S popularity, never high, is hitting new lows according to the latest opinion polling.

A survey carried out by More in Common found that the Prime Minister’s personal approval rating is now minus 16, a drop of 27 per cent since the general election.

And two-thirds of voters believe that Sir Keir’s government is more interested in serving itself than the wider public, likely a result of the cronyism scandals that have beset his administration.

A separate poll by YouGov found that more than half of the public now disapprove of the government’s record, in a survey conducted before Sir Keir’s “more misery on the way” address this week.

The 51 per cent disapproval rating represents a rise of 20 per cent over the course of August, from 31 per cent. 

Only 23 per cent approve of the government’s record over a period marked by far-right riots and new austerity measures.

Sir Keir is now roughly as popular as former Tory PM Theresa May after the 2017 general election which deprived her of a Commons majority.

The decision to cut winter fuel allowances from pensioners has also gone down badly, particularly and unsurprisingly with the elderly.

Eighty-two per cent of the over-75s, anticipating a winter in unheated homes, oppose the move, one of several “tough decisions” Chancellor Rachel Reeves has taken at the expense of the most vulnerable.

The only consolation for the Prime Minister is that, while 53 per cent of voters in the More in Common poll believe that Labour is corrupt, that is less than the two-thirds who believe the same of the Tories.