Labour's latest record low

John Rentoul breaks the news of the latest ComRes poll for The Independent over at Open House, the Tories are on 45 and Labour on 24—the lowest the pollster has ever had Labour, and the Lib Dems 16. 68 percent of voters agreed with the statement that Labour will lose next time round regardless of who is the leader. However, among Labour supporters that number dropped to 38 percent. It would be interesting to see whether those who voter Labour in 2005 think the party would have a better chance of winning with someone other than Brown in charge.

Rentoul is impressed by the fact that a plurality of voters think the Tories would do a better job on fighting knife crime than Labour. Personally, I think this is relatively unsurprising given the traditional Tory advantage on crime and Labour’s unpopularity.