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Cabinet meets amid grim poll news
Chris Laker3 Sep 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will attempt to re-energise his Cabinet today, in its first meeting since the summer recess.
Frontbenchers will convene to mount a fightback in the run-up to the next general election, following summer polls that place Labour far behind the Tories.
A YouGov survey for The Sun newspaper today revealed that the Conservatives were heading for a 96-seat Commons majority at the next general election.
Tory leader David Cameron has a 42% share of the vote, with Labour trailing on 28% and the Liberal Democrats on 17%.
The poll, the first of the party conference season, also found that voters believed Mr Cameron would make a better prime minister than Gordon Brown by a factor of two to one.
Mr Brown will now try to rally his Cabinet to convince voters that its strategy of spending during the recession has had a marked effect on the economy's recovery.
The Cabinet meeting comes days before G20 finance ministers gather in London to join Chancellor Alistair Darling for talks on the world economy.
The Prime Minister will also attempt to finally shake off the Lockerbie row, which yesterday led him to deny "double dealing" over the bomber's
release from a Scottish prison.
The meeting, to be held in an undisclosed location, is the latest in a series of Cabinet "away days".
Mr Brown's Cabinet meeting in Birmingham last year was thought to be the first such event to be held outside London since 1921.
Reader views (3)
Only 42%? David Cameron should be ashamed of himself. The way this shoddy shower are behaning, it should be
62%
- David Ludwig, Worcester. England, 03/09/2009 22:47
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Labour have as much as 28% David Cameron is not working hard enough, I am very disappointed.
NEVER EVER let the Lib-Dem’s get in, if you thought Labour was bad you wait till the Lib-Dem’s let their wacko do-gooding ideas flourish ! Even more Human rights and money is likely to be wasted on political correct madness !
- James, London, 03/09/2009 09:42
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"An undisclosed location"?
On expenses, of course!
- Reuben Camara, Morecambe Compound, EUSSR, 03/09/2009 08:59
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