New polling from Survation in LabourList shows Streeting would take just 23 percent of the vote among 1,123 Labour members in a head-to-head contest against Starmer, who would cruise to victory on 53%. Not even close…
In fact, Starmer would also win against Al Carns, Darren Jones, Bridget Phillipson, Louise Haigh, Yvette Cooper, Shabana Mahmood and Lucy Powell. Three candidates would beat him: Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband, and Angela Rayner…
Survation CEO Damian Lyons Lowe said:
“In November last year, members were about as likely to back Wes Streeting as Keir Starmer in a hypothetical head to head membership contest.
“However, updates in February, and in member polling conducted yesterday and today (May 14) show a membership increasingly in support of the PM as the Health Secretary’s ambition to topple Keir Starmer have been made both plain and acute, while a significant minority of members – 36% – do not think there should be a change of leadership (57% do, 7% don’t know).
“The vast majority that do (84%) believe the PM should set out a timetable vs an immediate departure (14%) – with the most popular option being that a new leader is in place by conference in September (43%).”
At the time of going to pixel, the Streeting camp is insisting it has the numbers but “things are shifting“. Who will blink first? The stats above might give pause for thought…
