Poll results cut Tory lead
Updated on 22 October 2008
A Channel 4 News poll shows David Cameron's lead dramatically cut in key marginals, even before the controversy over his shadow chancellor's yacht trip.
David Cameron has again attempted to brush off criticism of his shadow chancellor and right-hand man, George Osborne, over his links with a Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska.
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The Conservative leader stressed that Mr Osborne had neither requested nor accepted any money and had set out in full all the meetings that had taken place this summer in Corfu.
But the pressure remains on the party, and a new poll carried out for this programme in the key "battlefield marginals" will give Mr Cameron even more cause for concern - the Conservative lead over Labour has been cut from 13 per cent last month to just 5 per cent.
An exclusive Channel 4 News poll reveals that the Conservatives would win an election by a comfortable majority of 50-60 seats representing a 5 point Tory lead, but this is a dramatic DROP of 100 seats in just over a month.
On 11th September Channel 4 News polled the same 60 marginal seats David Cameron must take off Gordon Brown revealing at the time a massive 12 per cent swing to Tories in Labour-held marginal constituencies and a Commons majority of up to 150.
The poll reveals that 67 per cent believe that Gordon Brown should remain prime minister until the next general election.
41 per cent believe Gordon Brown makes the better prime minister during an economic crisis against just 27 per cent for David Cameron.
48 per cent believe that the Tory party doesn't know how it would deal with the current economic crisis. A blow for Shadow Chancellor George Osborne.
48 per cent agree with Gordon Brown's Labour Party conference statement that this is "no time for a novice".
