YouGov LAB party members polling finds that just 45% backed the party last Thursday
Question for ?@UKLabour? – are you planning on expelling nearly half the membership? pic.twitter.com/I3z6ZOpF59
— Marcus A. Roberts (@marcusaroberts) May 30, 2019
Putting Alastair Campbell into context
I find the above polling of LAB ,members really quite remarkable and shows the huge difficulty the leadership has pursuing its Brexit agenda which is alien to a large part of the membership base. That in a major election fewer than half the membership voted for the party says an enormous amount about the challenges facing the party.
This doesn’t come as a surprise. I personally know LAB members and activists who did exactly the same in the Euros.
YouGov, it should be said, has built up a good reputation with its surveys of the various parties membership.
No doubt this will be used to further ratchet up the pressure on Milne and Corbyn.