Snap Poll - Post BBC Seven Party Debate

Snap findings from More in Common’s poll of more than 1,000 viewers of tonight’s 7-party BBC debate. The snap poll was conducted after the debate ended between 21.00-22.30.  Key findings: 

• Snap poll finds Nigel Farage wins BBC's Seven Party Debate among viewers

• Viewers more than twice as likely to think Penny Mordaunt would make a better Prime Minister than Rishi Sunak

• Smaller parties - including the Greens, Liberal Democrats and SNP - more likely to have been seen by viewers to have done at good job at the debate

Who won the debate? 

The snap viewers poll finds that the viewers are most likely to think that Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage won tonight’s debate (25% say Farage won the debate), followed by Angela Rayner in second place (19% say Rayner won the debate). 

Almost half of 2019 Conservative voters watching the debate thought that Nigel Farage won the debate. Angela Rayner leads among 2019 Labour and Liberal Democrats voters watching the debate. 

Who had a good debate? 

Viewers are most likely to think Stephen Flynn (net +31), Carla Denyer (net +31) and Daisy Cooper (+30) did well in tonight’s debate - the net figure is worked out by subtracting those who think the politicians did a ‘good job’ during the debate from those who think they a bad job. The only participant thought by more to have done a bad job than a good one was Penny Mordaunt (net -19).

Who’d make a better Prime Minister? Rishi Sunak or Penny Mordaunt? 

The snap poll also finds that viewers are more than twice as likely to think that Penny Mordaunt would make a better Prime Minister than Rishi Sunak - 32% think Penny Mordaunt would make a better Prime Minister versus 12% who say Rishi Sunak would make a better Prime Minister. However, the majority of the public say they don’t know who’d they prefer as Prime Minister. Only 18% of Conservative 2019 voters watching the debate favour the current PM over Penny Mordaunt.

Who’d make a better Prime Minister - Keir Starmer or Angela Rayner? 

The polling also finds that the viewers would prefer Starmer to Rayner as Prime Minister by a margin of 37 per cent to 25 per cent. Among 2019 Labour voters Starmer is more favoured - 54 per cent for Keir Starmer to 34 per cent for Angela Rayner.

Fieldwork: Online, 7th June 2024, 21.00-22.30 

Our Executive Director, Luke Tryl, presented these results live on Newsnight, as they came through after the end of the debate. 

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