Women are losing faith that UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer can turn their fortunes around, a problem that threatens both the Labour government and its ambitions to boost the economy.
GfK consumer-sentiment data show that Britons lost confidence in both the country’s and their own finances in the run-up to the October 2024 budget. But while men’s assessments of their own finances have since bounced back, women are still gloomier than they were before fiscal fears kicked in.