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Brown's party narrows poll gap

UK: The Labour Party of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has narrowed the opposition Conservatives' opinion poll lead to single figures for the first time in a year, according to a survey on Monday.

An ICM poll for Tuesday's Guardian, posted on the newspaper's website late on Monday, showed Labour with 31 percent support, up two points from last month, with the centre-right Conservatives down two points to 40 percent and the Liberal Democrats down one point to 18 percent.

It was the first ICM poll since December 2008 to give the Conservatives less than a double-digit lead, the paper said.

The result echoed the findings of a YouGov poll for the Sunday Times at the weekend which showed the Conservatives' lead narrowing by four points to 9 percent.

By contrast, a poll in the Independent on Sunday showed the Conservatives' lead had widened to 17 percent, putting them on course to return to power for the first time since 1997.

An uneven distribution of support among Britain's 650 parliamentary constituencies means anything less than a 10-point lead for the Conservatives raises the prospect of a hung parliament, in which no party has an overall majority.

Tuesday's Guardian poll showed Labour's vote share had crept up for the fourth successive month. A report in the Sunday Times at the weekend said Labour, encouraged by polls showing a decline in support for the Conservatives, could opt for a March 25 election.

Reuters

 

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