Advantage Cameron
9:57am
David Cameron will surely be relieved by the finding in today's Guardian/ICM poll that Gordon Brown's lead has narrowed already to five points. But the much more significant figures are the Tories' leads on crime and health. Turn to this morning's Daily Mail, where a survey conducted for Hillary Benn's Environment Department shows that crime and health are now the voters' main priorities. Last week, Mr Cameron finally found his voice on law and order, matching his concern for the causes of crime with a new, unambiguous commitment to robust punishment of offenders. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister persists with his mantra that "education is my passion, health is my priority". To translate: if Labour doesn't reclaim the issue which defined its appeal after the foundation of the NHS, it is in big trouble. The early part of the summer was rotten for Mr Cameron, but, in every sense of the phrase, things are hotting up now.
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Tiberius
August 27th, 2007 12:03pm Report this commentWelcome relief indeed that things are moving in a positive direction, and vindication of Cameron's strategy to hoover up LibDem votes rather than attempt the much harder task of picking up Labour votes.
Cogito Ergosum
August 27th, 2007 7:23pm Report this commentPolls go up and down at random as any mathematician will confirm; so small changes like these are no cause to celebrate. (P) Meanwhile, not everybody is enthused by Cameron's emoting over a murder, however bad it was. A scientific approach to the number of grammar schools and special needs schools that this country needs would be far more impressive. Cameron, however, is not a man of the Age of Science.
Perry
August 28th, 2007 8:55am Report this commentIndeed, - it would be better that the Leader of the (Loyal) Opposition avoid the Bliarite gush and piffle. Rather, work with substantive issues of real, widespread, and genuine concern to those outwith the bien passant.
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