Brown faces gloomy future

More support for other party leaders :

BRITAIN: A new poll released by the ICM survey on Sunday showed that just 20 percent British people believed that Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the best man for the job out of the current three main party leaders although Brown said his party will be fighting for the future at the annual conference.

According to the poll, some 43 percent showed their support for Britain's opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron, while 14 percent backed the Liberal Democrats' Nick Clegg and another 16 percent said none of the three.

In addition, Labor's temptation to change their leader ahead of the next election in a bid for more votes may be tempered as the poll found more than 69 percent said they would not change their vote if Brown was replaced as the party's leader.

Only 16 percent of the 1,003 adults interviewed last week said it would make them more likely to vote Labor.

Addressing the autumn conference, Brown said he would use his conference speech to set out how he would deal with the whole future of British economy and the whole future of the society. The autumn conference, held at a time when the ruling Labor Party is in difficulties such as economic recession and increasing casualties in Afghanistan, opened on Sunday in Brighton, south England, with the theme of "New Labor for Britain."

He also said that Britain was recovering from the recession thanks to the actions taken by the government, but now the country had to "prove we are fighting for the future as well." Brown said "I've had to fight through all kinds of difficulties that I've faced and I know what happens ... A setback can either be a challenge that means it's an opportunity."

Labor party deputy leader Harriet Harman said that "the reason why people are saying this is our fightback conference is that the country is in difficult times, and we'll fight back not for ourselves but for the jobs of people in this country."

London, Monday, Xinhua