Louise Haigh is expected to agree to cut a target for EV sales by about a quarter
Andy Burnham has a commanding lead over all the other main UK party leaders on polling on who would be the best PM, according to new figures from YouGov. In head to head polling, Burnham has a 12-point lead over Kemi Badenoch, and much bigger leads over Nigel Farage, Ed Davey and Zack Polanski.
Badenoch is ahead of all the other leaders apart from Burnham on this measure. Davey only beats Farage and Polanski. Polanski loses to all four other leaders featured in this polling, and Farage only beats one of them, Polanski, but only by a one-point margin.
Such is the scale of Burnham’s advantage over his fellow progressive leaders that those who backed the Greens in 2024 are divided 43% to 35% in his favour over whether he or Polanski would make the better PM, while 2024 Lib Dem voters actually back the Labour leader over Davey by a decisive margin of 58% to 17%.
In May, by contrast, Lib Dem voters favoured Davey over Starmer on this question by a 30 point margin (with Labour voters only favouring Starmer by 24 points), while Polanski’s lead among Green voters was 51 points.
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