Labour Party
A cynic might wonder if Andy Burnham's tack to the left is designed primarily to lure back Green voters. If so it appears to be working. If Labour hold off Zack Polanski's bid for parliament at the Holborn and St Pancras by-election the strategy will be
More in Common
New polling from More in Common has Labour leading in the first poll of the Autumn, with the Conservatives displacing Reform by one percentage point. Which is the first time in 18 months that the Conservatives are ahead with this pollster. As Reform kick off party conference season they will
General Election
Despite polls since the Clacton by-election giving Reform an average lead over the Conservatives of 5 percentage points our default model now shows that on current polling the Conservatives would win 27 seats more than Reform. Labour would win 274 seats, more than double the trailing Tories. The heady days
More in Common
More in Common are the first pollster to record a Labour lead in the Burnham era. Polling with fieldwork completed today sees Labour move ahead by 4 points which is the first lead recorded by them since March 2025 and their highest share since November 2024. Post-Makerfield Burnham's
Andy Burnham
Keiran Pedley writing for Ipsos asks as Keir Starmer prepares to depart Downing Street, ‘how did it come to this?’ How did someone who won such a landslide majority in July 2024 end up being replaced two years later? How did it all go wrong so quickly? Pedley points out
Andy Burnham
Amidst much talk of an upcoming "Burnham Bounce" for Labour it is noticeable that his personal ratings have gone down. A YouGov/Times survey – conducted on 24-25 June, following Keir Starmer’s resignation – shows that Andy Burnham has taken a hit to his personal ratings. This latest poll
Keir Starmer
Public opinion towards Starmer's period in Downing Street remains broadly negative; just 14% are satisfied with the way the government has been running the country, compared to 78% who are dissatisfied according to data from Ipsos. 63% of the public disagree that the Starmer government is competent, and
Kemi Badenoch
The latest data from Ipsos shows that whilst the Starmer-led government faces intense public criticism, opposition leaders have yet to secure a definitive personal breakthrough with the British electorate. * Kemi Badenoch registers the highest individual satisfaction among the leaders asked about at 28%, with 50% dissatisfied, yielding a net score
Makerfield
Averaging out the five constituency polls carried out in Makerfield the Labour lead over Reform was 7 points and on the same basis Restore was polling 7 points on average. Which means it looks like, according to the pollsters, that Rupert Lowe's Restore Party will put Andy Burnham
Survation has, bravely, conducted a new second poll of the Makerfield constituency. Fieldwork was conducted by telephone among 518 adults in the constituency between May 26 and June 1. The survey was done by telephone interview. Targets for the weighted data were derived from Office for National Statistics data and
Makerfield
Survation has conducted a telephone poll in the constituency on behalf of Election Data Ltd.* Fieldwork was conducted by telephone among 504 adults in the constituency between 18th and 22nd May 2026. Andy Burnham leads Robert Kenyon by three points in Survation's first poll of the Makerfield by-election,
YouGov surveyed 706 Labour members about Starmer’s performance as PM and his potential challengers. Wes Streeting in a speech today to the House of Commons on his resignation talked about his "rebellious hope". On the basis of the survey he has no hope. * Most Labour members think
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