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12.02 pm GMT
Here are some more tweets on the YouGov poll.
From the polling expert Ian Warren
Labour leadership polling( in brackets the% of public who’ve heard of that person according to YouGov) Starmer 31%( 41% “ve heard a lot about” him) Long-Bailey 20%( 24%) Phillips 11%( 33%) Cooper 7%( 65%) Lewis 7%( 27%) Thornberry 6%( 44%) Nandy 5%( 19%) #LabourLeadershipElection
Now the net favourability of eachStarmer -4( 41% have heard of him) Long-Bailey -2( 24%) Phillips + 2( 33%) Cooper -5( 65%) Lewis + 5( 27%) Thornberry -8( 44%) Nandy + 2( 19%) #LabourLeadershipElection
1. The membership has never been as dogmatically Corbynite as many discussing Labour under Corbyn imagine. Therefore, the idea that The Anointed Successor to the Absolute Boy would just walk it was always flawed. 2/?
This relates to sthing @election_data has emphasised with me in the past – Lab members take fairness very seriously. Corbyn won two big-hearted authorizations therefore should be given a fair get-up-and-go. But now he’s had two shots at general elections, and lost the second seriously, they move on?
11.43 am GMT
YouGov included Yvette Cooper in its listing of seven potential Labour leadership candidates for its poll of party members.( See 9. 51 am and 10. 21 am .) But, according to a story by Jason Groves in the Daily Mail, Cooper is expected to announce that she won’t be standing, because she has concluded that her opposition to Jeremy Corbyn would attain her unelectable committed how popular he is with members. Orchards quotes a “friend” of Cooper’s as saying 😛 TAGEND
From the style Yvette is talking, she is not going to stand. The mode the party is now, it is going to be very difficult for anyone who has criticised the Dear Leader, as she has. It’s ridiculous when he’s just lost us another election. It’s likewise a shout disgrace. Yvette is one of the few grown-ups we’ve got left- she’s probably our best chance.
Read more: theguardian.com
