The Government's messy decision to nationalise Northern Rock did not appear to damage Labour last week, even though opinion polls showed the the voters were unimpressed by ministers' handling of the issue. However, the Tories will take comfort from our latest monthly survey by ComRes, taken at the weekend, which shows they have increased their lead over Labour from 8 percentage points last month to 11 points.
The new survey puts the Tories on 41% (up three points), with Labour (30%) and the Liberal Democrats (17%) both unchanged on last month. Crucially, it would give David Cameron an overall majority at the next election, while last month's ComRes survey pointed to a hung parliament. Full details in tomorrow's paper and at ComRes.
Can I ask what the point of opinion polls is? Who wants them? Apart from newspapers who love to have something to comment on...
Posted by: Gary | Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at 12:37 PM