New poll shows risks for Keir Starmer over spending choices

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According to the new voting, he highlighted welfare expenditure on welfare spending than increasing the UK’s defense budget, highlighting the political challenge in the face of Sir Care Starmer.

Conducted exclusive voting before Wednesday Spring statement He also expressed that voters from all parties think that the government can increase the cost while reducing taxes.

Although voters have acknowledged that the government has a constraint to increase the orrow, the survey conducted jointly by Stonehaven and the public was shown that they did not accept that trade-offs were needed for rebuilding.

Where should the money come from?

The survey further proved that Starrs have already pulled two of the four major livers – cutting abroad assistance and raising taxes on business – most voters that seem acceptable to pay for higher defense expenditure.

The two other sectors that the voters agreed could increase the defense budget is to renewable energy and invest in public transport – Chancellor Rachel Reeves, the two principles that have said that labor plans are basic for the restoration of the economy.

In recent weeks, starmer’s defense expenses announced the steps of the workers by deciding to cut off the budget of foreign aid to 2.5 percent of GDP Cut off the UK Spring Annual Welfare Bill By $ 5 billion in a year.

Robert Ford, a professor of political science at Manchester University, says the public ‘cake-and—it’ approach about tax and expenditure creates a major problem for the government, especially since it imposes increasing strict cost reduction across the Whitehol.

The “Public Magic Money Tree” believes in the opponents-who can always pray when the government imposes the cuts-but it is for the government to admit that trade-offs exist. “

Stonehaven’s chair Peter Liberne said that this voting showed that public feelings were currently lagging behind politicians and business leaders that are currently announcing a “renewal moment” for Europe.

“Investors and the government who think that the moment has come must understand where the voters are, otherwise those who hurry to create or drive the infrastructure of energy and transport may come well,” he adds.

A pivot in Europe?

The voting, which was conducted between March 8 and 8, also clearly showed a feeling of strength to the United States.

It shows that more than a third of the UK voters will support the EU as arms supplier, the United States was a favorite partner than a quarter of voters.

On a potential sign of the quick transferred view of the Transatlantic Alliance, the UK voters were strongly in favor of the “Cross-European Armed Forces” despite the conservative and right-wing warning over the rise of the “Euro Army”.

Significantly, despite the UK’s long -standing defense relations with the UK, the UK’s nuclear resistance was more likely to provide military support to France in attacking the UK by a UK terrorist group.

Trump’s trap?

Conservative and reform voters were in favor of Washington, the UK’s political debate over whether to spend more with the party lines with conservative and reform voters and adjust to the United States or EU.

However when Starrs have tried to walk in diplomatic Titrop with the Trump administration about how to bring Ukraine and how to bring peace Avoid a trade warVoters from all sides have a negative view of US President Donald Trump.

Even among the reform voters, whose leader Nigel Farage Trump’s vocal supporter, says less than half that they were a third conservative and a quarter of the labor voters had a positive attitude towards the US president.

The Ford of the University of Manchester said that voters generally presented the political risk for Farage and the conservatives who have joined themselves with the Republican Maga movement in the United States.

“The problem is that their attachment to Trump does not share most of their voters, or more importantly, they are trying to win the voters from the other party. Trump-Ilingon is a way to shrink their vote on both conservative and reform.”