And so the first poll of 2009 delivers a 7 point lead for the Tories. Here are the headline numbers from the YouGov poll in the Sun:
Conservatives — 41 percent (-1)
Labour — 34 percent (-1)
Lib Dems — 15 percent (+1)
We’ll need a few more polls to get a clearer picture of the New Year standings, but I expect Team Cameron will be pleased with this showing. Taken with the polls before Christmas, it’s further evidence that the Brown bounce is either slowing or over. And with the stormy 2009 that Brown has in store, the Tories will regard this as a base camp from which they climb even higher.
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