MORI: Brown’s lead would be 3% with Cameron and 7% with Davis
The Mori polling organisation have just published details on their website of the Tory leadership poll that was featured in the Sun this morning.
With a sample of just 508, compared with the normal 1000+, the survey has to be treated with a little bit of caution, but it does show Cameron having 33% support amongst the general public compared with 13% for David Davis and 11% for Liam Fox who was still in the race when the field-work was being carried out.
If the next election saw a Cameron-led Tory party up against a Brown-led Labour then the split would be CON 36: LAB 39: LD 18. If Davis was leader the shares become CON 33: LAB 40: LD 19.
A total of 79% disagreed with the suggestion that Cameron was “too young” to be PM while 74% did not think that being an Etonian would be an impediment.
These are all very high figures and things could start to go wrong for Cameron if future polls started to show a decline. There are still six weeks to go.