Sebastian Payne

Labour is still not trusted to run the country

Labour may be level with the Conservatives in the polls but it is still not trusted by the public. Lord Ashcroft’s latest national poll has the two main parties on 31 per cent of the vote — both down one point from last week. 59 per cent say they have already made up their minds about they’ll vote on 7 May.

There aren’t many positive views in this poll about the Labour Party. Although roughly half think the policies of the last few years have failed, a majority don’t think Labour has the answers. According to Ashcroft’s poll, 58 per cent think Labour has ‘not yet learned the right lessons from what went wrong during their time in government, and cannot yet be trusted to run the country again.’ Just over a quarter think Labour has learned the right lessons and 17 per cent think there are no lessons for the party to learn.

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