Labour slips further in the polls
Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:00 AM
By politics.co.uk staff
Labour's sliding poll ratings have dipped to their lowest point in six months leaving it trailing the Conservatives by 14 points.
Their rating now stands at 28 percent, a drop of five points in the last month alone, which leaves them just two points above their low of 26 percent last summer.
The Tories now stand at 42 percent, a drop of one point from early January and still 4 points behind their highest rating last year.
The Populus poll, conducted for The Times over the weekend, shows the Liberal Democrats have made up ground on their main rivals, adding three points to their last rating which brings them up to 18 percent.
The bad news for Gordon Brown is that his personal ratings have dropped significantly, indicating that the 'Brown bounce' is well and truly over.
In November Mr Brown lead David Cameron by 20 points as the best leader to deal with the economy during the recession.
Those numbers have drawn closer ever since and this poll now shows Mr Cameron leading Mr Brown by 41 to 32 percent.
Mr Cameron now leads Mr Brown as the right leader to take Britain forward after the next election by 45 to 28 percent, up five points from January.
Confidence in the economy appears to have reached its lowest point as the percentage of people who think the country will do well in the coming year is up two points while those who think it will do badly is down by two.
That may be of little consolation to Mr Brown, however, considering over half of those polled felt he was not up to the job of being prime minister.
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