Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Opinon Poll

An opinion poll in today's Times is interesting for two reasons.

First, Michael Howard appears to be making some but not much headway. The Conservatives are on 33%, 3% behind Labour on 36%. This compares with a 5% deficit in the last Populous poll, taken (I think) just after he had been elected. This will disappoint some bloggers who had been predicting the Conservatives moving into the lead.

Second, to my surprise, the Labour proposal on tuiton fees is much more popular than my party's plan to abolish them. As I note below, I don't actually believe we would do that in government, but I'd assume it was a good electoral wheeze.