After the findings of the latest Guardian/ICM poll – which placed Labour on 35 percent (up one point) and the Tories on 37 percent (down two points) – there’s a hard-hitting article by Trevor Kavanagh in the pages of today’s Sun. Kavanagh laments the Tories’ inability to capitalise on recent political events:
“Maybe Gordon Brown is a lucky politician after all … The dour Scot has endured the most brutal battering of any new Prime Minister in history — mostly self-inflicted … His Government is adrift, dithering and indecisive … It is under siege on immigration, street violence, squandered cash and rampant hospital superbugs … Yet voters seem remarkably forgiving … Instead of turning away from Gordon Brown, they seem to be going off David Cameron … The Tory lead has been slashed to as low as two per cent in one poll and eight per cent in another … That’s nowhere near enough to guarantee Election victory — still less match Tony Blair’s 36 per cent lead over John Major … Battered Labour is also learning how to cope with vicious political weather … Gordon is slow and ponderous in the Commons, like an old bruiser making one last bid for the title.
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