Keir Starmer set another unwanted record today as the Labour deputy leadership frontrunner lashed out at 'mistakes and unforced errors'.
A YouGov poll showed the PM's popularity reaching another low, with his net favourability at minus 50 following his latest disastrous week.
The figures emerged as Lucy Powell, who was sacked by the PM in a panicky reshuffle less than a fortnight ago, warned in a brutal interview that the public does not feel the government is 'on their side'.
In a sign of efforts to force Sir Keir to the Left, she demanded that he abandons his 'defensive crouch' and gives a clear commitment to scrap the two-child cap on benefits.
The former Commons Leader is the favourite to take the key post vacated by Angela Rayner when she quit over her tax affairs. A survey of activists this week showed Ms Powell streets ahead of Downing Street's de facto candidate, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson.
