After a poll for YouGov showed Ken Livingstone overtake Boris Johnson take the race for mayor last week, this trend has been confirmed by ComRes. A survey commissioned by London Tonight, LBC and the Evening Standard reveals Ken edging the incumbent out at 51% to 49%.
Just 101 days out and it’s too close to call.
Support for the Liberal Democrats is plummeting faster than the value of Greek bonds, with just three percent of 18-24 year olds saying they would vote for the party. The results from YouGov depict a vertiginous decline in popularity amongst university age voters since the party decided to embrace the Conservatives. In April 2010 36 percent would have backed Clegg.
The party may yet resort to bribing young people to support them when the pollsters ring.
About £9,000 should do it.
In the same week that Stonewall chief Ben Summerskill boycotted the Tories first ever conference pride event, the survey of 600 gay, lesbian and trans voters also found that 67% thought the Conservative Party is homophobic.
De-toxification FAIL.
In a YouGov poll for Sky News, The Tories lead with 43 points, Labour up slightly on 29 and the Liberal Democrats feel the squeeze on 17. Running this through Electoral Calculus gives David Cameron a majority of 100 if this were replicated on polling day.
But the most interesting results are arguably an even 44/44 split on Tory plans to raise the retirement age to 66 and 28% preferring Ken Clarke in HM Treasury as compared to 21% for the actual shadow chancellor George Osborne.
Better continue with that ‘deep voice’ coaching, George.
