Results from The POLITICO Poll suggest that while U.K. voters were eager for new leadership, they were less interested in a shortcut for selecting the country’s new leader.
By ERIN DOHERTY
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Andy Burnham is the clear front-runner to become the country’s next leader after Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his resignation Monday — a remarkable fall from power just two years after he rode a wave of voter demand for change to a decisive victory. But The POLITICO Poll finds that many U.K. adults didn’t want Burnham to be anointed leader, even though many were on board with him ultimately becoming prime minister.
Just 1 in 5 U.K. adults said Burnham should be immediately made Labour leader — and thus prime minister — if he won last week’s Makerfield by-election for a seat in Parliament, which he did.
