The only detail at the moment is from Andrew Grice’s blog at the paper. He writes: “If Gordon Brown was hoping that the row over his decision to abolish the 10p lower rate of income tax would not damage Labour, he’ll be very disappointed by the latest monthly ComRes survey for The Independent. The Tories have doubled their lead since last month from seven to 14 points, the biggest since ComRes began polling for the paper in September 2006.”

That’s the only information that’s available.

The last ComRes poll at the end of March had the Tories on 38%, Labour on 31% with the Lib Dems on 17%.

Mike Smithson