The Polls

The Conservatives are now 16% ahead. They were 14% ahead two weeks ago.

Today’s YouGov poll for The Sunday Times puts David Cameron’s Tories on 44% - the party’s highest level of support since 1992. They lead by 16 points over Labour on 28%, while the Liberal Democrats are on 17%. Only 11% now believe that Labour will win a clear victory in the next general election.

Brown’s poll rating has fallen to minus 37, down from plus 48 last August. The collapse is the most dramatic of any modern-day prime minister, worse even than Neville Chamberlain who in 1940 dropped from plus 21 to minus 27 after Hitler’s invasion of Norway.

I suspect more stories like this will continue to emerge if the polls continue to look like Labour seats will be lost by the bucket load.