Poll blitz gives Miliband's team a big morale boost

Ed even beats Dave in personal rating. But Labour activists will be told: ‘Keep your feet on the ground’

Columnist Don Brind

A clutch of five polls – the largest number released in a single day so far - give Labour activists a huge morale boost. Three have Labour leads of three, four and even six percentage points. The two others have the parties neck and neck, with the Tories well short of what David Cameron needs to stay in power.

Survation for the Daily Mirror delivers a triple whammy. Not only does it give Labour a four-point lead, but it also has Ed Miliband outscoring Cameron for the first time in the personal ratings and it shows that a majority of Tory voters back Miliband’s crackdown on “non-doms” who avoid UK tax.

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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.