David Cowling IS alive

We were all worried about David Cowling, he is the BBC's political research editor and every month he reviews the political opinion polls published in the previous month, or rather he did, but the series stopped after the March 2008 report (published on 7 April). Many were worried, I raised my concerns on Biased-BBC. Today I see that he is back with his June report. Poor Mr Cowling has bad news to impart:

"June marked the first anniversary of Gordon Brown's premiership - and the public's verdict in the polls proved far from complimentary.

ICM/Guardian (sampled 20-22 June) reminded respondents that Mr Brown had taken over from Tony Blair one year ago and asked whether the prime minister's "personal leadership style has proved to be a change for the better or a change for the worse?"

Some 74% answered "for the worse" and this group included 60% of Labour voters (overall 14% said "for the better", including 28% of Labour voters).

Once again contrasting him with Mr Blair, ICM asked respondents if they thought Mr Brown's "policies are a change for the better or a change for the worse?"

Green taxes

They found 64% who said "for the worse", compared with 20% who answered "for the better" (Labour voters divided between 43% who said better and 45% who said worse)....

ComRes/Independent on Sunday (sampled 11-12 June) found 53% disagreed with the proposition that drivers of "gas guzzlers" should pay much higher car tax, even if they bought their car some time ago.

And Populus/Times (sampled 6-8 June) registered 88% in favour of scrapping the proposed 2p increase in petrol duty, and 67% who favoured both scrapping the 2p increase and cutting the current level of petrol duty."

Good to have you back David, but what happened to the April and May reports?