Overview
- Andy Burnham was elected Labour leader unopposed and took office as prime minister this week, immediately naming a reshuffled cabinet with John Healey as chancellor.
- YouGov's favourability survey published Thursday shows Burnham with a net rating of +3 as 38% view him favourably and 35% unfavourably.
- The new chancellor John Healey records a positive net rating of +5 in the same poll, suggesting the cabinet changes are already shifting public impressions of senior ministers.
- Nigel Farage's favourability has collapsed to 22% positive and 68% negative, a net rating of -46 that matches the lowest readings in YouGov's decade-long tracker after reports about a £5m payment and continuing criminal and regulatory inquiries.
- Farage resigned his Clacton seat to force a by-election that major parties declined to contest, leaving novelty and independent candidates on the ballot and shifting media attention toward Burnham's early days in Number 10.