Another set of big poll leads for the Tories

Two new polls this morning show the Tories with massive leads over Labour.  The Independent reports that the Tories were ahead 48-26 in the fieldwork for their poll which was carried out before Davis resignation but that dropped back to 41-26 after the shock announcement. However, as Anthony Wells notes the sample sizes involved are so small it is hard to draw any firm conclusions from this over whether Davis’ actions have hurt the party or not.

The YouGov poll for The Sunday Times which has the Tories on 47, Labour on 25 and the Liberal Democrats on 18 shows that Brown has no chance of recovery unless the economic outlook improves considerably. It finds that more than two thirds of voters blame Brown to some extent for the current economic troubles. 62 percent predict that the economy will either not grow or go into recession over the next 12 months.