Gordon Brown now less popular with voters than Ian Duncan Smith was

The latest Times/Populus opinion poll shows that the Conservative party's rating is 45% (up five points on last month), Labour’s rating has fallen to 25% (down 4 points from last month) whilst the Liberal Democrats rating is at 20% (up one point on last month).

Even worse for Gordon Brown is the news in The Times that:

"His leadership rating (on a 0 to 10 scale of very bad to very good) has fallen for the fifth time running, down from a peak of 5.49 last July to 3.9 now. This is lower than any of the other seven leaders of the main parties since the index was introduced five years ago. The previous low of 4.00 was for Mr Duncan Smith in 2003.

Mr Brown’s rating is particularly poor among the fifth of Labour’s voters in 2005 who now say that they would back the Tories — down at just 3.55. Mr Cameron’s personal rating, at 5.25, is at the top end of his range. "