Labour support is now the lowest it has ever been in The Guardian / ICM poll
James Forsyth 8:32pm
A new ICM poll for The Guardian has the Tories up two on 41, Labour down seven to 27 and the Lib Dems on 22, a three point rise on last month. This is the lowest level of support for Labour ever recorded in The Guardian / ICM poll which started in1984.
There is no silver lining to the poll for Brown. He trails Cameron on every attribute of leadership that ICM asked about and three quarters of people who voted Labour in 2005 think Blair was a better Prime Minister than Brown.
Update: The Independent also has a new poll out which has the Tories 13 ahead in Crewe and Nantwich. (Hat tip: Political Betting)
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Water
May 19th, 2008 9:09pm Report this commentMore good news!
Steve
May 20th, 2008 8:24am Report this commentExpect to hear the old line "there is only one opinion poll that matters, and that is ageneral election" soon.
Slightly off topic, but is there anyway of teasing out a substantial sea change in voting intentions, from the usual mid term protest stuff, which afflicts all governments? i.e how much of this lead is real and how much just fluff?
Personally I think this represents a real change, but I seem to remember some enormous mid term leads for the Labour party during the Thatcher years, which vanished by polling day.
Jon
May 20th, 2008 9:54am Report this commentI wonder how all those bright young things Gordo hired must be feeling. All left succesful careers, took pay cuts and now look like fools. Woops!
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