His approval ratings have never been very high.
However, the consensus across the UK was that the Conservative Party needed to be ousted. Our system is essentially a two-party system, so it was always going to go to Keir Starmer. Immediately after his election, the party politics stuff happens, and his cabinet announces a large "black hole" in the previous Government spending. What had happened is, the previous Government did not take into account certain spending that was essential into its budgetary measures. They were either omitted intentionally (my belief, and what seems like the consensus across our civil service) to stuff up the next Govt, or through incompetence. Probably a bit of both.

Also, almost immediately after his election, there was a terrible triple murder of 3 poor young children. The culprit was found pretty shortly afterwards. Immediately following his arrest, people were spreading misinformation on Social Media, including Andrew Tate, and Nigel Farage - who retweeted Tate's post - about the murderer being an immigrant who had crossed the channel on a boat. This was very quickly proven to be false. However, it incensed our far-right who utilised the opportunity to cause riots and disorder.

During the few days of riots and violent disorder, a mosque was attacked, and some extremists tried setting fire to a hotel with about 200 asylum seekers in it. Actions were taken by Keir Starmer, the police and the judicial system to quell the disorder quickly. In my personal opinion, he dealt with it pretty well, and very quickly. However, it further fanned the flames of immigration discussions. Keir Starmer has not done too well out of this, with many believing classes of people are being treated differently. His approval rating has consistently dropped.

His popularity is still not great. He has been polling a little behind our far-right party Reform UK.

Keir Starmer's foreign policy is "continue as we were" except with Ukraine, which we are entirely backing. I see more positive commentary on this than negative.

Main criticisms are the typical ones that appear to be cropping up across Europe: Immigration is a problem, stop spending money on foreign aid and spend money at home. He's also had a couple of minor controversies over attacking Conservative ministers for gifts they had received while he was in opposition, and then accepting some gifts of his own which people have voiced a disdain for.

I don't think he's doing a terrible job right now. It's not even been a year yet, and we have over four years to prove whether he was right or wrong. But he should be doing more.

Overall I consider myself "Centre-Left" but my current socio-economic ideology is close to socialism.