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GORDON BROWN has pushed Labour into a 10-point lead, the biggest since he took over as prime minister, according to a YouGov poll for The Sunday Times today.

The lead is also Labour’s biggest with YouGov since November 2002, before the start of the Iraq war, and underlines the turnaround in the party’s fortunes. The poll puts Labour on 42%, up two points on a month ago, with the Conservatives down one at 32% and the Liberal Democrats on 14%.

If this pattern of voting were to be repeated at a general election, Brown would add roughly 100 to the 66-seat majority at the 2005 election. The poll shows that Brown’s honeymoon as prime minister is continuing while David Cameron’s woes are increasing.

Brown’s personal rating is even stronger than his party’s; 65% of people say he is doing well and only 17% believe he is doing badly, a positive rating of 48%. By seven to one, voters say at an officially licensed laboratory close to the site of the outbreak. Ministers now appear confident that the outbreak has been contained. If it were to spread, the public would prefer that herds are vaccinated rather than culled as in the 2001 crisis.

Brown may also have gained popularity from the way he approached his first summit with George W Bush, the US president. Overwhelmingly (73% to 1%) people think that the prime minister is less close to the president than Blair. Most people (57%) say Brown has got the relationship with Bush right.

In the case of both the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, voters want British troops to be brought home. People believe (53% to 15%) that British troops are failing in Iraq; 74% say they should be brought home immediately or over the next year. In Afghanistan only 6% think the army is winning the war.

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