Tory poll slump and Labour leads with ComRes

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

A new poll for ComRes has Labour leading for the first time since the “Brown Bounce” of 2007, and reverses a Tory lead of 6% in the previous ComRes poll just two weeks ago – suggesting that the raft of cuts announced in the CSR is pulling support away from the Tories. Tonight’s poll has Labour on 37% (+3), with the Tories on 35% (-5%) and the Lib Dems on 16% (+2%)

There’s bad news though for the Lib Dems, as just 60% of voters who backed in May would do so again, while 27% said they would switch to Labour, a trend that has been replicated in other polls since the formation of the coalition.

It’s perhaps too early to talk of a sustained surge in the polls for Labour (YouGov has Labour 2nd behind the Tories in their daily tracker) and we’re far from the next election – but this suggests that Labour is being heard in the country in a way that it hasn’t been for quite some time.