Labour ahead: no ‘Budget bounce for Tories’ - yet

Observer jumps the gun with suggestion of Budget boost – all other polls show Labour still ahead

Columnist Don Brind

EDITOR’S UPDATE at 16.30 Monday: Since this article was posted, the weekly Ashcroft national poll has been released, showing Labour and the Tories level on 33 per cent. Lord Ashcroft writes: “Last week’s Budget appears to have had no overall impact on people’s assessment of whom to trust with the economy.”

George Osborne got the headline he'd been hoping for on Sunday - ‘Budget bounce takes Tories ahead of Labour with three-point poll lead’. The only problem was that no one agreed with The Observer’s verdict.

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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.