Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have seen their personal ratings slump to new lows amid the Budget lies scandal.
YouGov research found just 18 per cent of the public now have a positive view of the PM, his worst score so far. In contrast, 72 per cent had a negative opinion, giving a net score of minus 54.
The Chancellor’s statistics were even less encouraging, with just 12 per cent giving a favourable verdict and 71 per cent unfavourable. Her net rating of minus 59 was two points down from last week, plumbing previously unreached depths.
However, the polling painted a happier picture for Kemi Badenoch, after what has been regarded as a strong response to the Budget.
The Tory leader enjoyed a five-point bounce in positive perceptions and fewer people reported a negative view – leaving her at minus 26 overall.
The dire figures for Sir Keir and Ms Reeves follow a furious backlash at the way the government tried to soften up the country for another eye-watering package of tax hikes.
YouGov found Reform still with a significant advantage on headline voting intention. Nigel Farage’s party was on 28 per cent support, with Labour on 18 per cent.
The Conservatives and Greens were tied on 17 per cent after a surge under hard-Left new leader Zack Polanski.
Mr Farage’s net favourability score was minus 35 despite Reform’s overall lead in the research, carried out on December 14 and 15.
Ms Reeves has been accused of talking up a ‘black hole’ in the public finances that effectively did not exist to justify announcing another massive round of hikes on November 26.
The OBR had told the Treasury as long ago as September that a downgrade to long-term productivity estimates had been offset by higher tax revenues and inflation.
By the end of October Ms Reeves had been told the books were in a small surplus, with only Labour’s humiliating U-turns on benefits curbs and axing winter fuel allowance pushing them into the red.
However, Ms Reeves still called a press conference on November 4 stressing the bleak situation, before hammering the country with another £30billion of tax increases at the Budget.
She used some of the money to cave to mutinous Labour MPs by scrapping the two-child benefit cap, as well as increasing the ‘headroom’ in the finances to help calm nervous markets.
The Chancellor has denied misleading the public, suggesting that she had no choice about increasingly taxes to stabilise the finances.
