What to make of the YouGov poll in today’s Telegraph? It was conducted in the aftermath of Alistair Darling’s Pre-Budget Report statement – on Monday evening and throughout yesterday – and came out with the following headline figures:
Conservatives — 40 percent (down 1)
Labour — 36 percent (no change)
Lib Dems — 14 percent (no change)
The question now is whether this means the PBR has actually gone down well; whether it means that the public haven’t quite yet digested the Government’s measures; or whether the poll’s just an outlier. The thing with Brown’s Budgets is that they tend to unravel swiftly enough, and this latest certainly looks like following that trend (see the ‘VAT bombshell’ story in today’s papers). The Tories will be hoping that Labour’s poll gains unravel along with it.
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