Labour emerge from Easter with a narrow leads in two polls, while the veteran forecaster Martin Baxter warns the Tories they are running out time. “Less and less likely that the Conservatives will be in government after May 7,” he tells readers of his Daily Telegraph column.
His analysis is based on the latest Electoral Calculus poll of polls which has the Conservatives tied with Labour on 33 per cent.
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