Polling suggests politicians today viewed less favourably than their 1997 counterparts

Percentage of respondents who said they considered the politician a strength to their party*

2024

1997

0%

20

40

60

Keir Starmer

Tony Blair

Rachel Reeves

Gordon Brown

Angela Rayner

John Prescott

Oliver Dowden

Michael Heseltine

Jeremy Hunt

Kenneth Clarke

David Lammy

Robin Cook

Yvette Cooper

Jack Straw

Rishi Sunak

John Major

James Cleverly

Michael Howard

Suella Braverman

John Redwood

David Cameron

Malcolm Rifkind

Grant Shapps

Michael Portillo

Percentage of respondents who said they considered the politician a strength to their party*

2024

1997

0%

20

40

60

80

Keir Starmer

Tony Blair

Rachel Reeves

Gordon Brown

Angela Rayner

John Prescott

Oliver Dowden

Michael Heseltine

Jeremy Hunt

Kenneth Clarke

David Lammy

Robin Cook

Yvette Cooper

Jack Straw

Rishi Sunak

John Major

James Cleverly

Michael Howard

Suella Braverman

John Redwood

David Cameron

Malcolm Rifkind

Grant Shapps

Michael Portillo