Three new opinion polls showed Sunday the ruling Labour trailing behind the opposition Conservatives after Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced there would be no General Election this year or next.
One in the News Of The World gives the Conservatives a six- point lead, which puts the Conservatives on 44 percent, a score that would have seen the Brown's Commons majority wiped out and resulted in a hung parliament, according to Sky News Sunday.
The latest survey for the News Of The World suggests the Conservatives led by David Cameron would have deposed 49 Labour MPs.
The Conservatives were also ahead in two other polls, enjoying a three-point lead in a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times and a one point advantage in a poll for the Mail On Sunday.
As Conservative voters are more likely to go to the polls than Labour supporters, these results could be exaggerated even more at the General Election, the Sky News report said.
David Cameron has called Gordon Brown's decision (not to hold an election) a "humiliating retreat," which Cameron said was the result of "great weakness and indecision."
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell accused Brown of putting party politics above the national interest.
But Brown insisted he was confident he would have won an election, however, he did not want to be tested simply on his " competence" in dealing with the crises Britain has faced since he took over in June such as flooding, the attempted terror attacks and the Northern Rock crisis. He insists he needs more time to make real changes to Britain, saying he wanted to be judged on his long-term "vision" for the country.
After weeks of speculation that the prime minister was about to announce an autumn election, he ruled one out Saturday afternoon.
There does not have to be another General Election until May 2010.
Source: Xinhua
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