Conservatives polling ahead of Labour for the first time since 2011

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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.

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45 Responses to “Conservatives polling ahead of Labour for the first time since 2011”

  1. AlanGiles

    Give me strength!. Who influences Labour policy? Who ignores the bits of Conference they find inconvenient? : The LEADERSHIP

    Miliband is a weak leader, forever looking over his shoulder at the Blairites, too terrified to challenge them. Weak, weak, weak.

  2. robertcp

    You are entitled to your opinion.

  3. ForeignRedTory

    Say lots of nasty things about the PM, focussing how on his watch , the NHS has been a severe dissapointment, useless loss of life, tragic consequences, let us all down, what a sheer mediocrity he is compared to fill in the blank in Euroland, pound for pound the most lacklustre performer…. btw does NHSScotland fall under the SNP?
    Same medicine.

  4. uglyfatbloke

    The new parliament could abolish the fixed term legislation quite easily.

  5. Leon Wolfeson

    Okay. You do that then.

    I’ll keep working with others to change the voting system to PR.

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