The Independent is not always aligned with British public opinion. We could not be true to our name if we were. We disagreed with the democratic decision of the people in the 2016 referendum on our membership of the European Union, for example.
But an opinion poll carried out for us by JL Partners suggests that our view of Sir Keir Starmer and the Iran war is widely shared. The poll used a split sample, asking half of respondents for their view of the prime minister, without a preamble, and asking the other half the same question after reminding them of Sir Keir’s refusal to allow the United States to use British bases for offensive purposes. The first subsample gave Sir Keir a net negative rating of 40 percentage points; the second gave him one of 14 points.
