This map is actually more incredible than I thought it'd be. The Conservatives (so far) lead at a local level in almost as many seats as Labour in the capital. #le2026
🚨 Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll 🚨
Andy Burnham is currently the most acceptable option as Labour leader as far as the public is concerned.
Rachel Reeves (53%) and Angela Rayner (45%) have the highest proportions saying they would be unacceptable as future Labour leader.
🚨 Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll 🚨
Just over half (56%) of the public think Keir Starmer should resign as leader.
Among Labour voters, opinion is almost evenly split:
🛑42% think he should resign
👍44% think he should stay
How has Westminster voting intention changed since the last local elections?
➡️ REF 27% (no change from LE2025)
🌹 LAB 19% (–7)
🌳 CON 18% (–1)
🌍 GRN 15% (+6)
🔶 LD 12% (–1)
Why are the Tories doing better? They're keeping more votes where it matters.
>Labour vote is halving everywhere: going from 60% to 30%, 20% to 10% etc.
>Tories by comparison: where they had 60% they're getting 40% on avg, some even wildly above, but halving elsewhere #le2026
🚨 Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll 🚨
Keir Starmer’s approval rating has fallen to -49, his lowest since becoming Prime Minister.
📉 Down 5 points this week.
📉 Lower than any rating recorded by May, Johnson or Sunak.
🚨 Opinium constituency poll for @BylineTimes & @forwarddemo 🚨
A very close three-way contest in Gorton & Denton:
> the Greens and Labour are both on 28%, just one point ahead of Reform on 27%.
> Among those most likely to turn out on Thursday, the Greens edge ahead to 30%.
🚨 New polling with @ObserverUK
Keir Starmer’s net approval has not changed since our last voting intention poll, remaining strongly disapproved of (-33%).
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The poll was undertaken by Opinium - which I don’t trust after I’ve seen what it funds. https://t.co/SbEAQRRgAf
Here's why I think the proposed sale of the Observer to Tortoise would severely damage the reputation of the Scott Trust and threaten the future of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, which I edited until last weekend 🧵
Wow. This new Kamala Harris ad narrated by Viola Davis is one of the most powerful things I’ve watched. It tells the story, experience, & vision of Kamala Harris & why she is ready for this. It’s a masterpiece & it sent chills down my body. Watch & share.
BREAKING: https://t.co/JQWy2gTfhs just dropped a new track titled "Yes She Can"—and yes, “She” is Kamala Harris.
This is the anthem America needs to hear right now.
BREAKING: https://t.co/JQWy2gTfhs just dropped a new track titled "Yes She Can"—and yes, “She” is Kamala Harris.
This is the anthem America needs to hear right now.
I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.
I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.
My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.
That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.
Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.
It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.
I want to tune out.
But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.
And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.
That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.
For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.
The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.
It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!
But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.
It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.
We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.
That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.
Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.
And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H