Most people see healthcare as more important than the economy when voting
For the first time since September 2011, the Conservatives have moved ahead of Labour in the monthly telephone survey conducted by ComRes for The Independent.
The Tories have moved up two points since last month and are now on 31 per cent, while Labour have moved down two points to 30 per cent. UKIP have moved up one point to 17 per cent, the Lib Dems down four points to eight per cent and the Greens up two points to seven per cent.
According to ComRes, three in five of the people surveyed (59 per cent) say that the parties’ policies on healthcare and the NHS will determine their vote more than their policies on the economy.
Only one in three (34 per cent) say that economic policies will be more important than health ones.
On NHS funding, people trust David Cameron about the same amount as Ed Miliband, with 29 per cent saying they trust Cameron to ensure the NHS has enough money and 28 per cent saying the same of the Labour leader.
ComRes interviewed 1,001 British adults between 23 and 25 January 205, weighting the data to ensure it was demographically representative.
45 Responses to “Conservatives polling ahead of Labour for the first time since 2011”
madasafish
Stop shouting: it’s rude.
keeshond
When I heard Gisela Stuart MP, on a programme for the BBC’s Democracy Day, say that there was nothing disadvantageous to Labour in the new rules for individual voter registration and that no one should have any trouble remembering their national Insurance number in order to do so, I realised just how complacent and out-of-touch so many Labour MPs have become.
Most Conservatives are likely to have registered by the cutoff point before the election. Not so many Labour voters will have done so, if they are even aware of the new rules.
Meanwhile, where are the new policies that could set Labour’s 100 days campaign alight? The party’s MPs haven’t much of a message anyway, but their supporters must despair of listening to so much of what they want to hear being articulated by the Greens.
Guest
No, it’s nothing to do with the leadership. It’s to do with the policy.
Reducing tuition fees to 6k does absolutely nothing for most people, of course, as they still won’t be able to pay it off before it gets written off decades down the line.
Your determination to keep up austerity and not allow borrowing is typical. Cut, you cry, cut the poor more, as you grab the knife.
Guest
Yes, your Coalition caused it, as you talk about your negative economic credibility. But wages are still way too high for you.
Leon Wolfeson
Because they’re also austerity fans and can’t thus say anything meaningful on it.