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Labour and the Tories neck and neck on 37%

Labour draws level with the Conservatives for the first time since October 2007.

By George Eaton

You might expect Labour, with no permanent leader in place, to be lagging in the polls. But the latest Guardian/ICM poll shows quite the reverse. The poll puts Labour neck and neck with the Tories on 37 per cent, the first time an ICM poll has shown the two parties drawing level since the phantom election of October 2007.

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