NCS’s chief information analyst Harry Enten delivered a bruising Brit-themed polling breakdown as King Charles prepares to reach in the U.S., warning that the nation’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, is in worse form than former President Richard Nixon was after the Watergate scandal.
In latest weeks Starmer has confronted ferocious political backlash at dwelling over his determination to nominate Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to Washington. Mandelson, whose correspondence with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was revealed in a 2025 tranche of Justice Department information, was given the function regardless of having failed vetting.
On Monday, Enten handled community viewers to a better take a look at the embattled chief’s “downright atrocious” numbers.
“You think things are bad here in the United States? Why don’t you just go across the pond over to the UK?” he started.
“Just take a look here: Britons satisfied with Keir Starmer overall, 18% – you can’t even drink or smoke anymore when you’re 18%, you’re below that line. That’s not good!” he adopted, with a dig on the U.Ok. authorities’s sweeping new generational cigarette and vape ban.
It didn’t get higher from there, drilling into the quantity,s Enten continued: “How about his own party? The voters who voted him in back in 2024, less than 50% of Labour Party voters back in 2024 actually are satisfied with the job that Keir Starmer is doing. When less than 50% of your party voters are satisfied with what is shaking, you know you’re in bad, bad shape.”
NCS anchor John Berman jumped in, asking for the contextual comparability apparent: “Wildly unpopular right now, how does he compare against someone in American history?”
“I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a U.S. leader so unpopular,” Enten replied, explaining that he had do return by the “record books” into historical past to search out out.
“I was like, who was the worst ever, the lowest ever? And that was George W. Bush back in 2008. He came in in one poll with a 20% approval rating. Well I got news for you, 20% is low but it’s higher than 18%!” Enten provided.
The got here the headline-grabber: “Keir Starmer is less popular right now than the least popular American president ever. He is somehow less popular than Richard Nixon [who] was coming in at about 24% just before he resigned office.”
“So Keir Starmer is less popular than Richard Nixon was when he was forced out by Watergate!” he exclaimed. “Keir Starmer, a very unpopular man. A lot of people want to put a lot of things in their tea when they look at Keir Starmer over in the U.K.”
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