{"id":801499,"date":"2026-03-03T15:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/801499\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:56:19","slug":"greens-overtake-starmers-labour-in-new-uk-poll-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/801499\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens overtake Starmer\u2019s Labour in new UK poll \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quarter (25 percent) of those surveyed who backed the Labour Party in the 2024 general election said they will now back the Greens. A third (37 percent) said they would continue to support the governing party.<\/p>\n<p>The polling of 2,073 adults in Britain Sunday and Monday came just days after the Greens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-greens-snatch-labour-seat-gorton-denton-by-election-hannah-spencer-keir-starmer-blow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won the Greater Manchester constituency<\/a> of Gorton and Denton from Labour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result is likely to have been driven to a significant extent by the publicity from the Denton &amp; Gorton by-election,\u201d said YouGov\u2019s Anthony Wells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat result may have had an impact in terms of making the Greens appear a more viable option and less of a wasted vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study found that the Greens, whose membership numbers have surged since Zack Polanski<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/zack-polanski-named-green-party-leader\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> became leader last September<\/a>, are the most popular political party in all age categories under 50. Nearly half (49 percent) of 18 to 24-year-olds and just over a quarter (27 percent) of 25 to 29-year-olds said they would back the party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/united-kingdom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLITICO\u2019s Poll of Polls<\/a> \u2014\u00a0which aggregates data from multiple sources\u00a0 \u2014 has Reform UK on 26 percent, the Conservatives on 17 percent, Labour on 16 percent and the Greens on 15 percent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A quarter (25 percent) of those surveyed who backed the Labour Party in the 2024 general election said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[1193,2814,33,13,807,12,47,14,16,15,1202],"class_list":["post-801499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-british-politics","tag-data","tag-elections","tag-headlines","tag-keir-starmer","tag-news","tag-poll","tag-top-stories","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-westminster-bubble"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116166065309225382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}