The number of polls showing the Tories below forty percent are causing some heartburn for the Tory leadership. When the first poll came out showing the Tory lead down, there was a feeling that this wasn’t all bad, that it would help remind the party that the election isn’t in the bag. But there is now mounting concern at Tory slippage, this is being reinforced by the fact that the party’s own research shows the same trends.
Today’s leader in The Times, a paper which is normally editorially supportive of the leadership, was another unhelpful development. Newspaper editorials don’t move popular opinion but they do still influence the prism through which politics is reported and having The Times declare that “we still await a clear, unambiguous and compelling case for a Conservative government” has added to the sense that the Tories lack an overall message.
But tomorrow offers the Tories a chance to turn attention back to the shocking state of the public finances.
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