Courtesy of Political Betting, the headline figures from the latest MORI poll:
Conservatives — 40 percent (down 5)
Labour — 37 percent (up 7)
Lib Dems — 12 percent (down two)
Opinion polls have been varying wildly over the past couple of weeks, so it will be interesting to see if – and how – they settle after the PBR. In the meantime, numbers like these will fuel the idea that Brown’s set to call an early election.

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