Labour still 17 points behind with ICM
CON 42%(-2)
LAB 25%(-2)
LD 21%(+3)
And Nick Clegg gets to just four points behind
Another month goes by and Labour’s polling position remains dire with no respite in sight. For a new ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph just being reported suggests that there’s been little change between the main parties since the last survey from the firm in the Guardian a week and a half ago.
Both Labour and the Tories are down two with the Lib Dems up three.
You now have to go back to December 2008 before you find an ICM poll where the Tories did not have a double digit lead. The current 17 point gap equals the second highest on record.
What will be very disappointing to Labour is that their ongoing attacks on the Tories for their alleged links with “far right parties” in the EU don’t seem to be having any impact. This has been just about their only line in the past fortnight and so far, at least, it has not benefited them in the polls.
To many in the Labour party ICM is seen as the gold standard because it has been round for so long using the same methodology and has a good track record. That will add to the worries.
The Lib Dems will be pleased that they are back over 20% and not too far behind Brown’s Labour.
We’ve said it before, I know, but you just wonder how bad it has to get for Labour before there is any thought of a leadership change?
Betting on the polls. 
6% deficit segment.