Labour still trail Tories in polls

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A YouGov poll for Saturday's Daily Telegraph put Labour on 31%, up seven points on a similar survey last month. But Gordon Brown's party remains 14 points behind Mr Cameron's Tories on 45% (up one point) and seems to have made most of its gains from the Liberal Democrats, down five points on 15%.

Meanwhile, an ICM poll published on the Guardian's website indicated that the Tories enjoyed a modest bounce of their own from their conference.

Compared to a similar survey a week ago after Mr Brown's well-received speech in Manchester, the Conservatives are up one point on 42%, Labour down two on 30% and Liberal Democrats down one on 17%, giving Mr Cameron's party a comfortable 12-point advantage.

The two surveys were conducted after the end of the Conservative conference in Birmingham, and suggest that - despite being largely overshadowed by the international banking crisis - the gathering managed to halt, if not reverse, Labour's surge after its own conference.

As MPs return to Westminster on Monday, the message seems to be that the economic crisis and conference season have helped Mr Brown eat into the Tory poll lead, but the Prime Minister still has a long way to go to dent Mr Cameron's chances of replacing him in the election expected in 2010.

The Guardian survey found that 55% of voters think Mr Brown has handled the economic situation well, against only 39% who say he has performed badly.

And after months in which he has trailed Mr Cameron as best choice for leader of the country, the Telegraph poll put Mr Brown almost neck-and-neck on 39% to the Tory leader's 40%.

Some 34% of people told YouGov they would trust the Conservatives to get Britain out of the present financial crisis, against 27% who named Labour and 29% who were unconvinced by either.

YouGov elicited the opinions of 2,048 adults across Great Britain online between October 1 and 3. ICM interviewed a random sample of 1,008 adults by telephone between October 1 and 2.