Labour buoyed by three opinion polls
Three polls out on Sunday show Tony Blair unswayed from his goal of winning an historic third term of power.
Labour has a lead of between two to seven percentage points, suggesting it is on course to keep its majority in the Commons, albeit slightly reduced.
Labour has 161 MPs in the Commons at present.
The YouGov poll for The Sunday Times showed Labour ahead by two points on 37 per cent, with the Conservatives to 35 per cent and the Liberal Democrats on 21 per cent.
Meanwhile, an ICM poll for The Sunday Telegraph puts Labour four points ahead on 38 per cent against the Tories’ 34 per cent; the Lib Dems have 20 per cent of support.
A Mori poll for The Observer and Sunday Mirror, which asked those respondents who said they were certain to vote, had Labour on 40 per cent of the vote, compared to the Tories’ 33 per cent and the Lib Dems’ 19 per cent.
Opinion polls last week saw the Tories making major inroads into Labour’s lead, closing up the difference to within one point after flagging up Tony Blair’s record on immigration, crime and the 2003 Iraq war.
YouGov asked 1552 adults online between April 7 and 9.
Mori asked 1004 people over the same period.
ICM interviewed 1012 adults between April 7 and 8.
