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Article: Tories set to crush Labour as Crewe lead hits 13 points
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2008
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Labour is heading for a crushing defeat in Thursday's
parliamentary by-election in Crewe and Nantwich, according to a
ComRes poll for The Independent.
The survey puts the Conservative Party on 48 per cent, Labour on
35 per cent, the Liberal Democrats on 12 per cent and other parties
on 5 per cent. The projected 14 per cent swing to the Tories would
easily allow David Cameron's party to overturn the 7,780 majority
Labour enjoyed at the last general election.
Such a humiliating setback for Gordon Brown would revive the
debate inside Labour as to whether he should lead the party into the
general election. Labour MPs believe their party's portrayal of the
Tory candidate Edward Timpson as a ...