The latest YouGov poll for The Sunday Times shows no change in the Labour and Tory numbers—the Tories are still 22 points ahead, 47 to 25. The good news for the Tories is that the longer this lead remains stable, the more voters will adjust to the idea of a Tory government.
The leadership speculation is relatively muted this weekend. In his Telegraph column, Matt pours some cold water over the idea that Brown might face a serious challenge soon:
“To return to the PM’s question: what does his survival tell us? First, that the Labour party are a bunch of wimps. Boy, they all talk the talk about getting rid of Mr Brown. Do they ever. There is no shortage of half-baked schemes to expedite his departure from Number 10: a convenient prime ministerial illness, a delegation of carefully selected Cabinet Ministers forcing his hand, even – quite absurdly – the suggestion that his wife be somehow co-opted to the Gordon Must Go campaign.
Actually, the last proposal tells you all you need to know about the mutineers. When a regicidal plot is so feeble that it relies upon the putative collaboration of the king’s (famously devoted) spouse, you know he does not have much to worry about yet.”
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