The end of the Brown bounce

The Sunday Times report that:

"The Conservatives have regained a double-figure lead over Labour as Gordon Brown’s bounce from his handling of the banking crisis has faded.

The latest Populus poll for The Times, undertaken over the weekend, will calm jitters in the Tory high command. In a surprise twist, the poll also finds that voters are much less pessimistic about their own economic prospects over the coming year than they are about the economy as a whole.

The Conservatives have risen four points since early December to 43 per cent, with Labour down two points at 33 per cent. The Liberal Democrats also down two at 15 per cent and other parties remain on 9 per cent. "

Not a word on the BBC of course, because at the BBC the Brown bounce will never end.