Staggering polling shows Farage’s popularity surging while Starmer and Reeves hit new lows

Twelve per cent of people had a ‘very positive’ view of Farage, far higher than Reeves, Streeting, Cooper, Lammy and Miliband who only four per cent of people felt the same about.

In the same period, Sir Keir Starmer experienced a dramatic fall in popularity, from plus seven to minus 22.

Thirty per cent of people also recorded they had a ‘very negative’ view of Sir Keir Starmer, the highest proportion of all figures featured in the poll.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves fared little better. Her popularity fell from minus three to minus 16, while 21 per cent had a ‘very negative’ view of the Chancellor.

Both Starmer and Reeves have suffered huge drops in popularity over several controversial calls they’ve made in their first five months in power.

These include axing winter fuel payments for up to nine million pensioners, slapping farmers with inheritance tax bills, removing the bus fare cap, surrendering the Chagos Islands and hiking up Employer’s National Insurance Contributions.

This goes without mentioning the Sue Grey fiasco, allegations of cronyism and politicisation of the civil service, Starmer's vast number of donations and now the resurfacing of infantile, vitriolic comments made by almost every single cabinet member about Donald Trump, president elect of the USA.

Clarkson has been highly critical of Reeves’ slapping a 20 per cent tax on farmers assets over £1million when they die, asking the government ‘to back down’.

He added ‘there is no money in farming’ and that the nations’ farmers ‘need help’.

When he was told he was more trusted than Reeves and Starmer, Jeremy joked: “I’d become an MP – but if I am paying inheritance tax, I could not afford to take the pay cut.”

Elsewhere, new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch scored minus one, while ex-Conservative leader Boris Johnson scored minus 13.