What do the British public want from their government after 2015? Well, unless things are really going to shift in British politics in the next few weeks, they still want the impossible: a Labour majority government led by David Cameron. According to a poll from ComRes/ITV News out this evening, 55 per cent said their favoured scenario is for David Cameron to remain Prime Minister, compared to 45 per cent for Ed Miliband. But 51 per cent would prefer Labour winning a majority of MPs — two points ahead of those who’d like to see a Tory majority.
This contradiction is not new. Cameron has always polled ahead of his party — one of the reasons rumoured leadership coups never amounted to anything — while the Labour brand remains more popular than Miliband. These numbers explain the election strategies of both parties: the Tories want to make the campaign about how useless Miliband is.
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