UK Labour support at highest since 2010

Labour’s support climbed to 42 percent last month opening an wight point gap with senior coalition government partners, the Conservatives, results based on the weighted averages by surveys conducted by ComRes, ICM, YouGov and Populus for The Independent show.

The “poll of polls” also showed that junior coalition partners in the Liberal Democrat camp are hobbling along with a 10 percent support, which is less than half of their backing in the May 2010 general election.

The paper said the results mean if the current proposed new constituency boundaries are to be implemented, Labour would earn an 80 Commons majority while Lib Dems will be left with only 10 out of their current 57 parliamentary seats.

While the findings show gains for Labour, Professor John Curtice from Strathclyde University who compiled the results said people seem still less convinced by the Labour economic plan than by the coalition government’s austerity measures.

Curtice added Labour could see its push for gaining a majority in the next general election in 2015 turn into a “distant dream” if it does not establish a “durable” poll lead in the coming months.

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