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Crisis action boosts Brown in poll
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| Last Edited | Monsieur Oct 23, 2008 09:44pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, October 23, 2008 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's handling of the financial crisis has helped his party narrow the gap on the Conservatives, an opinion poll published on Wednesday showed.
The YouGov poll for Channel 4 News showed however that while many voters were happy to have Brown in charge at a time of economic upheaval, they do not want to see him win the next election.
The poll of 2,123 voters was carried out this week in 60 key marginal constituencies that the Conservatives must win if they are to oust Brown's Labour Party at the next general election, due by mid-2010.
The Conservative lead over Labour in the key battleground seats was slashed to five points in the latest poll, down from 13 points in a similar poll in September.
It is the latest in a series of surveys showing Brown fighting back after months in which Labour lagged the Conservatives by around 20 percentage points.
Sixteen percent of voters said they were more likely to vote for Brown due to his handling of the financial crisis, compared with seven percent who were less likely. The rest said it had not changed how they would vote or were "not sure." |
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