"Labour's popularity lowest since Brown took office"

The Guardian are reporting that "Labour has today suffered a dramatic backlash from voters in the wake of Alistair Darling's do-nothing budget, according to a Guardian/ICM poll. Support for the party has fallen to its lowest since Gordon Brown took office, with the Conservative lead quadrupling to a scale not seen since Margaret Thatcher won her final landslide in June 1987. The poll, carried out over the weekend, puts the Tories 13 points ahead of Labour — up 10 points from a narrow three-point lead in last month's Guardian poll. The lead is four points larger than in a second post-budget ICM poll published on Sunday, which also found rising Tory support....Labour support has dropped by five points since last month, to 29%, a level last seen in March 2007. This is the lowest Labour score since the Guardian/ICM series began in 1984. Meanwhile Conservative support has climbed five points to 42% — a level that would give the party a clear parliamentary majority. At the last general election, Labour won 36%, the Conservatives 33% and the Liberal Democrats 23%."


So the real headline should be "Labour's popularity lowest since 1984", oh well it is the Guardian.