(04/14/10) -

Tories Lead by Ten Points in Britain

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – The Conservative Party remains ahead of its competitors in Britain, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 38 per cent of respondents would support the Tories in next month’s election to the House of Commons.

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – The Conservative Party remains ahead of its competitors in Britain, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 38 per cent of respondents would support the Tories in next month’s election to the House of Commons.

The governing Labour Party is second with 28 per cent, followed by the Liberal Democrats with 22 per cent. 13 per cent of respondents would vote for other parties.

In June 2007, Gordon Brown officially became Labour leader and prime minister, replacing Tony Blair. Brown had worked as chancellor of the exchequer. Blair served as Britain’s prime minister since May 1997, winning majority mandates in the 1997, 2001 and 2005 elections to the House of Commons.

Since December 2005, David Cameron has been the leader of the Conservative party. In December 2007, current parliamentarian Nick Clegg became the new leader of the Liberal Democrats.

Yesterday, Brown expressed regret about the lack of banking regulations, saying, "In the 1990s, the banks they all came to us and said, ‘Look, we don’t want to be regulated, we want to be free of regulation.’ (…) And actually the truth is that globally and nationally we should have been regulating them more. So I’ve learnt from that."

The election to the House of Commons will take place on May 6.

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