A NEW POLL has suggested that Cumbrians think Keir Starmer would make a better prime minister than Rishi Sunak.

Polling company YouGov has released a poll outlining whether constituencies across the country think Keir Starmer or Rishi Sunak would make a better prime minister.

Every constituency in Cumbria thought that Keir Starmer would make the superior PM, apart from the safe Conservative seat of Penrith and the Border.

Seats like Carlisle, Copeland, Barrow and Furness and Workington are essential for the Labour Party to win if they are to form a government at the next election.

In Workington, 36 per cent of people thought that Keir Starmer was the best choice with 32 per cent saying Rishi Sunak and 32 per cent of people undecided.

Keir Starmer has a lead of three per cent in both Barrow and Furness and Copeland but a smaller lead of two per cent in Carlisle.

Rishi Sunak has a commanding lead of five points in Penrith and the Border whose MP, Neil Hudson MP backed Penny Mordaunt in the recent leadership campaign.

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Following former chancellor’s Kwasi Kwarteng’s disastrous mini-budget last month, the Tories slumped in the national polls with some pollsters predicting that the party would be wiped out in Cumbria, including the previously ultra-safe seat of Penrith and the Border turning red for the first time in its history.

Across the nation, 38 per cent said Starmer would make the best leader, 29 per cent thought Sunak would do a better job, while 32 per cent were not sure.

Keir Starmer was the most popular choice across the so-called ‘red wall’, seats across the North of England and Wales which the Tories won for the first time in 2019, whilst also beating Sunak in many of the Conservative traditional heartlands.

YouGov interviewed over 12,000 voters across the country between October 21 and October 23.

Constituency-level forecasts were estimated using the same method which correctly predicted the 2017 and 2019 General Elections.

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