The latest YouGov opinion poll has devastating new for Gordon Brown and the Labour party as they crash to their worst poll results in decades.
The poll, carried out for the Sun, puts the Tories on a massive 49 per cent with Labour trailing at just 23 per cent - a gap of 26 per cent. This is the first poll conducted wholly after both the local election results and Boris Johnson’s victory in London, though a recent Populus’s poll was partially conducted after the mayoral results.
If the results were to be repeated during a General Election then the Conservatives would win a majority of 272. Though obviously, in the vastly unlikely event that such a lead occurred at a general election all bets would be off and who knows what freakish result would actually occur.
Speaking to politicalwire.co.uk, a Conservative party source said: “These results are extremely encouraging, and show the extent to which Gordon brown has lost the confidence of the country”
Big election victories like the local and London mayoral elections last week often have a halo effect; the winner suddenly has the aura of victory about them, the loser the scent of defeat.
There was a similar effect when the Lib Dems victory in the Brent East by-election back in 2003, when the aura of success about them briefly saw them leap to joint first place in the polls on 31%, but soon fell back.
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