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”
Leon Wolfeson
No, I don’t see any significant borrowing plans from Labour, and refusing to do anything at all about poverty but channelling a few prestige contracts to a few building firms for things which won’t show a return for decades…
Remember, no borrowing from councils for housing.
Leon Wolfeson
/Still/ whining that the Tories got greedy on boundaries and lost it all?
And no, there won’t be a second GE. Remember that little thing called the “Fixed Term Parliaments Act”? Yea, whoops for you!
(I also think it’s a bad idea, but it’s the Tories passing it which is ironic)
AlanGiles
So anybody who is unconvinced by Miliband and Balls is, ipso-facto, a Tory?.
Well then it seems a lot of Labour supporters from left to right then must be Tory. A couple of years ago it was the fact that the “bankers bonus” was going to be used ten times over on various projects.
Now Miliband announces a wish list including several thousand more GPs within days of a report which says that less than 10% of medical students wish to become GPs. GThe only way of persuading them otherwise would be to pay them more than specialists, unless, of course Miliband and Balls think they could pay specialists less than GPs?
Politicians – of all parties – let me add that to save you having another hissy fit and typing in capitals, just don’t think before they open their mouths. They think if they say something it can autommatically be done – for example Nick Clegg announcing last week he wanted “nil suicides”. How the hell do you stop people?. Even when it was illegal and punishable by imprisonment until 1961, people still tried and often succeeded in killing themselves.
Most politicians have never had proper jobs and live in a fantasy world which is why only party sycophants believe the nonsense they come out with
robertcp
To be fair, planning to do what actually happened is quite credible.
robertcp
The problem is that Labour did not seem to know that something was very wrong with the financial system, for example, Fred the Shred was knighted! It is really depressing that Gordon Brown actually believed in a lot of the neo-liberal consensus.