A poll conducted after the Tory party conference last month showed that they were down one percentage point over the previous month, while Labour was up three points.
Is Labour a friend to working class people?
The Tories and New Labour are no more than bullies who are competing with each other to see who can be the most vile to ill and unemployed people.
Elected on a wave of revulsion with the Tories in 1997, New Labour today is in crisis. The party faces wipeout at the next election. Opinion polls predict it could lose 17 of its 44 MPs in London alone.
The only argument left to justify a vote for Labour at the next election is to warn that a victory for the Tories will mean a return to the brutal policies of Margaret Thatcher.
‘Voters back Tories to cut public spending", screamed the Sunday Times this week. A YouGov poll shows that people want public spending cuts rather than tax increases, Rupert Murdoch’s paper claimed.