Tories slump in ICM poll: has George Osborne blown it?

Autumn Statement was supposed to set Tories on road to victory – but voters say he’s being extreme

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne
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David Cameron’s Conservatives have slumped to their worst poll rating for 18 months in the final Guardian/ICM poll of 2014. It puts the Tories on 28 per cent, down three points. Labour are ahead of them by five points on 33 per cent.

Labour have actually increased their share by only one per cent and it’s Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems who are the chief beneficiaries. They are up three points on 14 per cent, level-pegging with Ukip who have been ahead of them for several months in almost all polls. The Greens are on five per cent.

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is a former BBC lobby correspondent and Labour press officer who is watching the polls for The Week in the run-up to the 2015 election.