Jeremy Corbyn 'commissions SECRET 10,000 PERSON poll on whether to RESIGN before 2020'
JEREMY Corbyn has reportedly paid for a secret 10,000 person opinion poll on his leadership amid rumours the Labour leader may quit before 2020.
Jeremy Corbyn has reportedly commissioned a 10,000 person poll
The secret survey is said to be ten times the size of a normal opinion poll and is expected to help the Islington North MP decide on his own future, the Mirror has reported.
Corbyn is expected to keep the results secret from the rest of his shadow cabinet and senior staffers at Labour HQ.
The whole thing is absolutely top secret - no-one is supposed to know about it
Only Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Corbyn's most senior political aides will know the result of the crucial poll, which is expected to be the biggest ever commissioned by Labour.
A Labour insider said: “The whole thing is absolutely top secret - no-one is supposed to know about it.
“Even the people who signed off the contract aren’t allowed to see the questions, let alone the results. They are terrified of leaks.”
Jeremy Corbyn is expected to only tell John McDonnell and a few aides the result
Newspapers usually conduct opinion polls involving 1,000 people and can cost four-figure sums to produce.
The poll conducted on the eve of the EU referendum by Leave.EU which correctly predicted a 52 per cent win for the Brexit only surveyed 4,000 people.
The Labour source added: “As I understand it this is by far the biggest thing we’ve ever done.”
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The left-wing party’s private polling firm BMG Research is expected to carry out the poll.
However, the Labour media team denied the report saying it is "entirely untrue".
It added on Twitter: "No such questions about Jeremy Corbyn have been commissioned in any such poll."
BMG Research was also responsible for the recent leaked survey of northern voters about two of Corbyn’s potential successors – shadow cabinet ministers Rebecca Long-Bailey and Angela Rayner.
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