‘Yvette is dead in the water’ – Team Burnham on the YouGov Labour leadership poll

The YouGov survey might be ‘just one poll’ in a notoriously tricky race to predict, but it has sent shockwaves throughout the Labour party. Tristram Hunt and Tony Blair have been activated to plead with the party to stick to the centre ground, while the other leadership camps are taking differing views on what it means.

Andy Burnham’s campaign do not seems too worried and thinks it spells trouble for Yvette Cooper. A source in the Burnham camp says:

‘It shows that Yvette is dead in the water, it’s a two horse race and she’s gone. We are ahead with members, just, and we’ll continue to fight for every vote.

On the Jeremy Corbyn threat, Team Burnham believe their candidate’s ability to win will triumph in the end:

‘It’s important for people to understand that when you get Andy, he is the only the candidate that can combine values and victory. With Jeremy, many people would argue that he is Labour to his core but I think it would be very hard to find someone who says he could win an election.