The big question, though, is whether Burnham can do a better job than Starmer.
On this question, 23% of Britons believe Andy Burnham would be a better prime minister than Keir Starmer, greater than the 8% would feel Starmer is a better PM than Burnham could be, but less than the 32% who feel neither of the Labour figures make for good PMs. A further 8% feel both would be equally good PMs.
34% of Labour voters feel Burnham would likely be a better prime minister than the incumbent, relative to 13% who feel Starmer is the more able of the two and 13% who rate their prime ministerial skills equally.
While Burnham has said this is Labour’s last chance to give the country the change it asked for two years ago, the public tend to feel that the Makerfield’s new MP represents limited change relative to Starmer.
43% of Britons believe that replacing Andy Burnham with Keir Starmer would represent either not very much change or even no real change at all, though 32% feel he represents at least a fair amount of change from the current occupant of Number 10.
Labour voters, though, tend to feel Burnham does offer a reasonable amount of change to the status quo, by 44% to 35%.
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