The above YouGov poll is more for political entertainment than serious politics. After all General Elections are fought on Party grounds, not to elect a leader. Of course party leadership plays a role.
I’m generally sceptical about opinion polls. As YouGov itself recently demonstrated the answers you get depends on the questions you ask. Even so YouGov is now a commercial polling organisation and if its political polls were to be as zany as some others profits would be hit.
The polling for Farage and Corbyn suggests a political polarisation but also in another register so does the support for Davey who was forthright again at Bournemouth in opposing the politics of Trumpism in a way that Farage, Badenoch and to an extent Starmer do not.
The header takes from the Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again, a politically ambivalent song, although Pete Townshend has been very much on the left
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