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| Labour denies conducting secret opinion poll to decide Jeremy Corbyn's future | Labour denies conducting secret opinion poll to decide Jeremy Corbyn's future |
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| The Labour Party has said that reports that Jeremy Corbyn has funded a secret opinion poll on his leadership are “entirely untrue”. | |
| The Daily Mirror had reported the Labour leader had ordered a "vast opinion poll ten times the size of a normal survey" seeking views on his own future, and is keeping the results secret from the rest of the shadow cabinet. | The Daily Mirror had reported the Labour leader had ordered a "vast opinion poll ten times the size of a normal survey" seeking views on his own future, and is keeping the results secret from the rest of the shadow cabinet. |
| Rumours abound that the leader is considering his own position, though he told the BBC recently that suggestions he has named his departure date were “fake news.” | Rumours abound that the leader is considering his own position, though he told the BBC recently that suggestions he has named his departure date were “fake news.” |
| Labour sources say that a large-scale opinion poll has been discussed but has not yet been signed off, and that even if it does go ahead it will not include questions about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. | |
| BMG Research, the company that has been sounded out over the survey, was also behind a recent leaked survey of voters in the north of England, canvassing opinion on two possible Corbyn successors: shadow cabinet ministers Rebecca Long-Bailey and Angela Rayner. | |
| Mr Corbyn faces two tests of his leadership this week, when simultaneous by-elections take place in Copeland and Stoke Central, both of which Mr Corbyn could lose. | |
| Mr Corbyn’s long-time ally, shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, said he would stay on whatever the results. | |
| “These are difficult by-elections. They are going to be quite tight,” she said. | “These are difficult by-elections. They are going to be quite tight,” she said. |
| “We are hopeful of winning both of them... And if we lose one, if we lose both, I think the party will go forward.” | “We are hopeful of winning both of them... And if we lose one, if we lose both, I think the party will go forward.” |