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Article: Tory lead cut as Labour faithful return to the fold
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 2, 2008
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Labour has narrowed the Conservative Party's poll lead to just
one point as the "Brown bounce" continues, according to a ComRes
survey for The Independent.
It suggests that the measures in last week's pre-Budget report
(PBR), including a new 45p-in-the-pound top rate of tax on incomes
over 150,000, have proved popular among Labour's core voters.
The survey, taken between Friday and Sunday, puts the Tories on
37 per cent (down two points on last month), Labour on 36 per cent
(up five points), the Liberal Democrats on 17 per cent (up one
point) and other parties on 10 per cent (down four points).
The figures would give Gordon Brown an overall majority of 10 if
repeated at a general election. ...