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To: maceng2 who wrote (464)	10/5/2003 7:53:59 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 1417

Dropping Blair for Brown could boost Labour [yeah maybe, but they will still lose the election imho ho ho ho -g- pb] ananova.com Labour could stretch its lead over the Conservatives by dropping Tony Blair as leader in favour of Chancellor Gordon Brown, according to a new poll. The survey in the Mail on Sunday indicated that Labour currently enjoys a slim one-point lead on 34%, with the Tories on 33% and Liberal Democrats 26%. But it suggested that with Mr Brown as leader, voting intentions would be 39% Labour, 31% Conservative and Liberal Democrat 23%, giving the party a comfortable eight-point lead. Commentators last week speculated that Mr Brown may be staking a claim on an early succession with his party conference speech in Bournemouth, in which he stressed his commitment to "Labour values". But Mr Blair made clear that he had no intention of handing over the torch to the Chancellor now. The YouGov poll found Mr Blair's ratings have fallen badly since the end of the Iraq war. Just 40% said he was doing well - down 22% since April - and 58% thought he was doing badly. But Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith's ratings also fell over the same period, with just 22% saying he was doing a good job - down 10% since April. Some 65% said Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy was doing well - up 16 points since the Iraq war - and 59% gave their approval to Mr Brown's performance. YouGov questioned a representative sample of 1,971 electors online throughout Britain on October 2 and 3.

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