Worrying News For All Political Parties

Lord Ashcroft has commissioned a wide ranging polling exercise, which has been carried in Today’s Sunday Telegraph.

The headline is that David Cameron comes out considerably ahead on leadership questions, but more shockingly – especially as we start the conference season – is that in nearly every key policy area, one third of the British Public thinks no party has the best policy to tackle the challenges.

This is worrying news for all parties as they head off from Westminster to the seaside Northern cities for their annual party conferences.

It will be very interesting to see if these numbers change over the coming weeks and months as the political debate heats up.