Labour narrows Conservative lead to just a point in new poll

Support for Labour rises four points to 40 per cent in the wake of the student fees announcement.

By New Statesman Published 14 October 2010

Ed Miliband's election as Labour leader has boosted support for his party, according to a new opinion poll which puts Labour just a point behind the Conservatives. The latest daily YouGov poll for the Sun put the Conservatives down two to 41 per cent, with Labour up four to 40 per cent and the Liberal Democrats down one to 11 per cent.

If repeated at the election on a uniform swing, the latest figures would give Labour a Commons majority of five seats. Miliband's party would have 321 seats, with the Conservatives on 293 and the Liberal Democrats on just 11 seats. Elsewhere, in a sign of a possible backlash against the coalition's plan to raise tuition fees, the government's approval rating fell to minus seven.

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28 comments

Tue, 2010-10-19 14:37 — Ian (not verified)

Of course you can’t read into one early poll rating, but it took the Tories over a decade after leaving office to hit the 40 per cent mark in opinion polls not five months. I’d be interested to know whether the support is coming from disillusioned Lib-Dem voters or a mixture of people.

Sun, 2010-10-17 09:31 — frances smith (not verified)

yes, luddite, if the tories played their cards right, they could win over a section of nasty sun reading right wing, bnp supporting blue collar workers. but the danger is that in doing so all pretence that they are anything but the nasty party will be lost, and we middle class people don't like nastiness, and theres a lot of us.

so they would most likely lose more than they gained.

Fri, 2010-10-15 22:26 — praha7 (not verified)

Luddite, I think you ought to calm down a little and try thinking for once.

My point is that if Labour and the Tories are neck and neck then they as popular or unpopular as each other.Surely that's obvious even to you.

Just for the record I never watch reality T.V.and I am definitely not your mate.

Fri, 2010-10-15 05:54 — Zole (not verified)

Let's not get carried away, here, Luddite's comments remain deeply unpopular.

Fri, 2010-10-15 05:57 — CrISpY DuCk

and always will be in your house so sod off you boring little man.

Sat, 2010-10-16 00:58 — thinkov

good a place as any -with a tenuous link thrown in...

should it be nip and tuck at general election time

we'll get another few seats for victory by kicking out the abominable Tessa Jowell

she is a flppin disgrace

Thu, 2010-10-14 10:26 — ang (not verified)

Just imagine what the polls will show after the spending review.

Sun, 2010-10-17 19:50 — Luddite (not verified)

frances smith
Middle class people don't like nastiness.. why doesn't that surprise me. Working folk have suffered liberal-left love and understanding for far too long.... the problem for the political-left is, they think they can live without the 'right wing, bnp supporting blue collar workers' the BIG!! problem for Labour is, the working class can live without Labour, but Labour can't live without the nasty working class.

Fri, 2010-10-15 08:04 — matthew fox (not verified)

Luddite's comments are deeply unpopular, but also out of touch.

Luddite is on the wrong side of argument.

Sat, 2010-10-16 10:18 — Luddite (not verified)

Five trillion, that's how much Labour taxed and spent many would say squandered in it's time in power. £5,000,000,000, now the country languishes in debt. Gordon Brown and the Labour party drained fortunes from gullible victim's, plundering their income and saving to create an illusion of prosperity. Some would say Labour created over 3 million new jobs, just one problem 85% went to overseas workers, while over 3 million British folk wasted away on state benifits, and in Labour's dying mounts this discredited government pursued a deliberate scorched earth policy a cynical attempt to destroy the economy for the incoming new government. ( praha7) mate wasn't meant as a term of endearment. Do you really think that the English wish to see the return of the most economic incompetent government in living memory, dream on and keep watching the polls' it seams to give you great comfort