As the Tories descend on Gateshead, two polls will be giving them food for thought. The first is one of party members conducted by ConservativeHome. It’s worth flicking through all the results, but here’s the headline finding: 79 percent of members want the Tories to stop matching Labour spending targets, and use the money to fund tax cuts and get government borrowing down.
The second is in the Times. Post-Budget, it suggests, public support is slowly starting to crystallise around Brown and Darling on the economy. The Labour line has been well-and-truly swallowed; with some two-thirds of respondents believing that “Britain’s economic position and prospects are affected much more by the conditions of the global economy than by anything that the Chancellor of the Exchequer does”.
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