Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Labour five points in the lead

A new ICM opinion poll in the Guardian (terribly spun in the story) gives Labour a 5% lead on 38%, with the Tories slipping back to 33% and the Lib Dems on 22%. It's illustrative of Labour's falling support that one is tempted to cry "rogue", but it's perhaps more indicative that Iraq is not such an important issue in the world as it is in blogland, and Michael Howard's shine is rapidly fading. In any case a clear majority of those expressing an opinion, 48% to 41%, now oppose the war (these figures are quite volatile). Here's the full data on the Iraq questions (pdf)