By Caroline Alexander Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) — The U.K. Conservative party entered the election year of 2010 with a 10-point lead over Prime Minister Gordon Brown ’s Labour Party, a YouGov Plc poll found. David Cameron ’s Conservative party had 40 percent support, unchanged from a comparable poll Dec. 13, while Labour’s support fell one point to 30 percent, according to the YouGov poll in the Telegraph newspaper today. A 10 percentage-point margin of victory would be enough to secure the Conservatives a Parliamentary majority of 22 seats, the newspaper said. Still, there were signs voters haven’t made up their minds, the Telegraph reported. Some 34 percent of those surveyed said Cameron would make the best prime minister, down from 39 percent in April, and his worst showing for almost a year. Brown must call an election by June, and is likely to choose May 6, when British local elections will be held. YouGov interviewed 1,848 adults Dec. 29-30. The figures are weighted and representative of the all adults in the country. To contact the reporter on this story: Caroline Alexander in London at calexander1@bloomberg.net .
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Conservatives Hold 10-Point Lead Over Labour Entering U.K.’s Election Year
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