(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-10-07 13:21

Brown said Saturday he was confident he would have won a fall election, but wanted to "show people the vision that we have for the future of this country in housing and health and education."

However, recent opinion polls likely gave the famously cautious Brown, whose nickname in political circles is "Prudence", pause for thought.

Polls this week showed the Conservatives closing the gap with Labour after Cameron gave a strong speech to his party's annual conference, in which he made eye-catching promises including a cut to inheritance tax.

Polls published Friday showed Labour and the Tories neck-and-neck, with one giving them both the support of 38 percent of voters.

A poll for the News of the World newspaper, released Saturday, had more bad news for Brown. A survey of 83 constituencies where either Labour or the Tories had small majorities gave Labour 38 percent support, compared with 44 percent for the Conservatives. In an election, those figures would result in Labour losing control of Parliament.

Pollster ICM interviewed 1,026 adults October 2-5. The margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points.

If Brown lost an election this fall he would become the shortest-serving British leader of modern times.

 

 

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