An Opinium poll for the Observer today shows Burnham is widely seen as the most likely and able successor. Burnham said that had he beaten Corbyn in 2015 he would have been more successful in preventing the Tories from breaching the “red wall” and countering their promises to “level up” the north. “The Labour party created the NHS postwar,” he said. “I ask myself, could the Labour party that I’ve been associated with in the 20 years that I’ve been in elected politics … could it create the NHS? Just under a half (49%) of 2019 Labour voters think Starmer should remain as Labour leader but a third (33%) think he should resign.

Source: The Guardian May 15, 2021 19:00 UTC