When importing or aliases a symbol with a use statement, the leading namespace separator is optional and does not modify the behavior. That is, use \X is equivalent to use X. As such, the latter syntax should be preferred because it is more concise.
According to the PHP documentation:
Note that for namespaced names (fully qualified namespace names containing namespace separator, such as Foo\Bar as opposed to global names that do not, such as FooBar), the leading backslash is unnecessary and not recommended, as import names must be fully qualified, and are not processed relative to the current namespace.