When Jeremy Corbyn’s aides said he was going to copy Donald Trump, I’m not sure this is what they had in mind. A new survey by GfK today shows the British public give a higher approval rating to the US president (18 per cent) than the Labour leader (17 per cent).

Theresa May is backed by 46 per cent, the government 40 per cent. Corbyn has a negative net satisfaction rating in every geographic and demographic group, including current Labour voters.

It is important to remember that Corbyn achieved something quite remarkable when his campaign to become leader swelled the party membership to more than half a million. Allies talked about it reaching a million. That now seems unlikely.

The Times reveals today that in