Before the last election, I had dinner with a Labour minister who told me her number one fear about the Tories getting in would be seeing David Cameron lap up the Olympic limelight. The Olympics, she feared, would hugely benefit whoever happened to be in power – and that was, she feared, going to be Cameron. She needn’t have worried. The Prime Minister was barely visible during the Games (to his credit, he’s not the type to hog limelight). Boris was Boris. But now the games are over, which party leaders have benefited the most?
Oddly, all of them – and Ipsos-Mori polling suggests the number one winner was Ed Miliband. The percent having confidence in his ability to do his job properly has jumped eight points, to 41 per cent. He’s now ahead of Cameron, up five points to 39 per cent and both do better than Nick Clegg, up four points to 31 per cent.
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