The latest YouGov poll for the Telegraph has the Tories on 41, Labour 38 and the Liberal Democrats languishing on a 11 percent. I suspect that both main parties will be fairly happy with these numbers. Labour will be relieved to still be within striking distance after such an awful few weeks. While the Tories will be delighted to be ahead and over the crucial forty percent mark.
Gordon Brown’s personal ratings have taken a battering after the whole debacle of the cancelled election. His net satisfaction rating is now minus 11, a plurality of people see him as indecisive and an absolute majority see the government’s ‘stealing of Conservative clothes’ as ‘feeble and opportunistic.’
The details of the poll, though, show the work that the Tories still have to do. By 65 percent to 18, voters are unsure of what a Conservative government will do and 60 percent still don’t know if there is substance behind David Cameron’s words.
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