Rebecca Long-Bailey is expected to win the backing of Momentum as a poll placed her ahead of closest rival for the Labour leadership, Keir Starmer. The polling comes ahead of Long-Bailey’s official launch to be leader later this week, and the expectation that Momentum members will endorse her as their preferred candidate. A senior Momentum source said the decision made by the group’s National Coordinating Group to endorse the Salford and Eccles MP for leader was unanimous. Given the movement is about democratising the Labour party as well. The survey of Labour party members commissioned from YouGov by the Party Members Project run out of Queen Mary University of London and Sussex University, has Long-Bailey as the frontrunner among Momentum members specifically at 26.6%.

Source: The Guardian January 15, 2020 21:16 UTC