Brown gets a pool boost but the Tories are still ten points ahead

James Forsyth There are two ways of looking at today’s YouGov poll, the first carried out since the announcement of the government’s rescue plan for the banks. The first is to see it as evidence of how the financial crisis is reviving Gordon Brown’s premiership. Labour are up three point to 33 percent—their highest rating with YouGov since February, 59 percent support the government's rescue plan and Brown and Darling are 33-27 ahead of Cameron and Osborne on the question of who voters trust to best handle this crisis. The other, and to my mind more accurate, way of looking at it is of proof of how much trouble Labour is still in. If after days of positive press coverage, with the whole rally round the flag effect of a crisis and with the opposition... [read full story]