Friday, January 23, 2004

Tories on course for landlisde

A YouGov poll in today's Daily Telegraph puts the Tories on 40%, 5% ahead of Labour, with the Liberal Democrats on 19%. Obviously all the usual caveats to polls, and particularly YouGov polls need to be applied -- mainly that their data set shows nothing like this result and it's achieved by statistical manipulation.

Nevertheless it shows what a strong performance the Tories can put in when the PM is rumoured to have only 24hrs to save his leadership, and shows that Blair really should do the decent thing and resign. When you've lost your only political asset, electoral success, what else is there left?

ps The poll, despite being headline news in the print edition of the Telegraph, is nowhere to be seen on the home page of their website. Indeed it's far easier to find this 30th birthday collection of Kate Moss photographs, which I link to merely in protest at the Telegraph's priorities.