Sky Pulse: 53% Can Imagine Corbyn As Next PM

Jeremy Corbyn's first conference speech as leader generally scored favourably among a group of Sky News viewers - with 53% saying they can imagine him as Prime Minister.

While 66% of those surveyed using Sky Pulse believe he is a good Labour leader, almost half cannot envisage him winning the next General Election.

In the pulse questions asked during the event, two-thirds of participants said they thought the Islington MP would be able to deliver a new style of politics as Leader of the Opposition.

Meanwhile, 61% believe he will be able to keep his promises as he battles to keep his shadow cabinet unified on key issues.

Although the results suggest Jeremy Corbyn has his work cut out to convince voters he can lead the country, he can take some comfort in the fact that 59% of participants are more likely to vote for him after watching his address.

Anyone was able to get involved in this unscientific survey, as long as they provided their age, political affiliation and gender - though this information was not verified by Sky News.

There was little in the way of wild swings between viewers strongly agreeing or disagreeing with what Mr Corbyn had to say. But some interesting patterns could be detected when the participants were broken down by age group and gender.

Throughout the speech, women were much more likely to agree with the Labour leader - and Mr Corbyn was particularly popular with people under the age of 34.

Sky Pulse users who claimed to have voted Conservative and UKIP at the last election strongly disagreed when Mr Corbyn said he does not believe that spending on new nuclear weapons is the right way forward, and Britain should honour nuclear policy obligations.

Conservative and UKIP supporters also disagreed with Mr Corbyn when he addressed the need to stand for human rights.

Mr Corbyn achieved his highest score when he was discussing the Syrian civil war and said that everyone wanted peace for people in the warring region.

There was also an overall peak in agreement when he said the stigma of mental health needed to come to an end.