Where the Conservatives have
more grounds for optimism are some of the other questions asked in the recent polls about David Cameron — a recent ICM poll that found that David Cameron was seen as a potential PM, a person who could change the way people thought about the Conservatives and a person who over a third of
Labour voters and almost half Lib Dem voters said they could vote for; another ICM poll that found that 40 % of people thought that Cameron was the
natural heir of Tony Blair — these sort of findings were definitely not seen after Michael Howard became leader.
The need for
Labour to attract current conservative voters to win an election, let alone UKIP ones who had previously voted labour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coal
Labour to attract current conservative voters to win an election, let alone UKIP ones who had previously voted
labour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coal
labour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current
Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coal
Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is
more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a
natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalition.