28 January 2021updated 04 Sep 2021 8:22am

Almost a year into his leadership, is Keir Starmer stalling?

Some voters feel the Labour leader is absent and invisible. But for others, it’s enough that he’s “not Corbyn”.

Keir Starmer still holds a net-positive score in public opinion polls. (Photo By Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

It has now been almost ten months since Keir Starmer succeeded Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour leadership. He inherited a polling deficit of 20 points against Boris Johnson and, since then, has managed to narrow the gap, often enjoying leads over the Prime Minister in approval ratings. It took Corbyn almost two years to tie with his Conservative opponents on this metric; Starmer did it in five months.