Post-conference poll boost for the Tories
Peter Hoskin 2:45pm
The latest Guardian / ICM poll records the slightest of post-conference poll boosts for the Tories. They're on 42 percent (up 1 on a poll conducted last week); Labour are on 30 percent (down 2); and the Lib Dems are on 17 percent (down 1). Given that the financial turmoil threatened to make the Birmingham gathering a non-event, I imagine Team Cameron will be happy with this modest upwards shift - although they'll rightly be waiting for a fuller picture to emerge, as more opinion polls are released throughout October.
P.S. Brown's called a press conference for 1615 today. We'll be live-blogging it on Coffee House - stay tuned.
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TrevorsDen
October 3rd, 2008 3:53pmA press conference?
Will he take questions? will someone ask him how this reshuffle reflects the 'change' he talked about when he became PM?
Maybe someone will remind him of his statement in his first budget
""Homeowners rightly expect their investment to be protected by sensible policies's I am determined that, as a country, we never return to the instability, speculation, and negative equity that characterised the housing market in the 1980s and 1990s.''
see the Telegraph.
And what message will he have for building societies who are seeing their deposits disappearing to Ireland. With deposits vanishing from the bank vaults how can banks recapitalise?
Will reporters follow the PMs line on the reshuffle or will they actually ask relevant questions relation to all our financial well-being.
Dirty Euro
October 3rd, 2008 4:18pmWow 1 %. Steady the horses. LOL.
Nicholas
October 3rd, 2008 5:48pmAh, Dirty Euro, the desperate rear-guard blogger for Brown haunting the Coffee House with his spine-tingling wails from the shadows. Boo!
With apologies to Punch of November 1914:
Dirty Euro (as the Fat Boy): "I wants to make your flesh creep"
John Bull: "Right-o!"
Dirty Euro
October 4th, 2008 9:58pmNicholas you make my flesh creep. You are one.