Overview
- Survation’s poll for LabourList finds 54% of members want a new leader and shows Andy Burnham, Angela Rayner, Ed Miliband and Wes Streeting each beating Keir Starmer in head‑to‑head tests.
- Burnham tops preferences by 58% to 32% over Starmer but would need a Commons seat to run, with Norwich South MP Clive Lewis saying he would give up his seat to facilitate a bid.
- Rayner leads Starmer 52% to 33% in the poll, despite resigning in September over underpaid stamp duty, after an ethics watchdog said she breached the code but acted with integrity.
- At the G20, Starmer said he wants to lead into the next decade and would contest any challenge, while also stating he “absolutely” wants Rayner back in Cabinet.
- Internal tensions have been heightened by earlier anonymous briefings against Streeting, and external pressure is growing as reports show Labour polling below 20% and the Green leader Zack Polanski weighing a run in Starmer’s Holborn and St Pancras seat.