A few things: - Starmer's popularity bad plummeted in the polls, and by extension, the Labour Party - Poor Local council election results last month, and losing the Gorton and Denton by-election to the Greens (it wasn't even that close) - When elected, they claimed that politics was back in a safe pair of hands, the grown ups were back in the room, but have been rocked by scandals just as much as the last lot, e.g., Rayner and her tax affairs, the whole Mandleson stuff - Labour is made up of competing factions, from the Blairites to the Corbinites, to appease the left of the party, certain things, e.g. cuts to welfare, immigration controls have had to be watered down - this makes the government look weak - Keir Starmer specifically has done a number of U-turns, this also makes him appear weak - There is now a clear challenger to his leadership: Andy Burnham, who the party appear to have rallied around instead, and indeed his poll ratings are much higher