Labour slumps to lowest ever poll rating

September 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - After sliding through the summer, President Barack Obama's approval ratings has settled in the low 50s and is comfortably placed next to those of recent presidents. A number of top pollsters say Obama's 52 percent average approval rating in Gallup's September survey is well within the expected range in the first year of a new administration, Politico reports.

September 29th, 2009 LONDON - The flagging popularity of Britain's ruling Labour Party was highlighted Tuesday by an opinion poll that showed that the party led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown had slipped to third place in the estimation of the voter. The Ipsos Mori poll, published on the day Brown is due to give a keynote speech to the annual Labour Party conference, put Labour at 24 percent, the opposition Liberal Democrats at 25 percent and the bigger opposition Conservative Party at 36 percent.

September 27th, 2009 LONDON - A recent poll has suggested that British voters think Tory leader David Cameron would make a better Prime Minister than Gordon Brown. According to the ICM survey for the News of the World, some 43 per cent voters said that Cameron was the best choice, while just 20 per cent believe that Brown is the best man for the job out of the current three main party leaders.

September 26th, 2009 Britain's Labour Party seeks winning formulaLONDON — It's a challenging time for British politics — not to mention Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party, which starts its annual convention Sunday. The gathering will be one of Labour's last-ditch political blitzes ahead of an election next year, which many pollsters say will end the party's 12-year grip on power and usher in a new era under the Conservative Party.

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - Nearly half of the British population believes that anyone in the Labour Party can do a better job than Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a new poll has found. According to a Populus Poll conducted by The Times, 48 per cent of voters think that "literally anyone" from Labour's ranks could do better, while only a third say that Brown is the best leader available for the party.

September 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama's overall approval rating has only dipped a couple percentage points in August. In the latest CBS News poll released Tuesday night, the president's overall approval rating is 56 percent, which is down two points from the last poll taken at the end of July.

July 31st, 2009 LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Government is now as unpopular as John Major's was the year before his Conservative party suffered a landslide general election defeat, according to a new poll. A Daily Telegraph YouGov poll found that 70 per cent of voters now disapprove of the Brown Government's record, with only 17 per cent approving of it.

July 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Amid rising questions about US President Barack Obama's handling of the economy, his job approval rating has gone six points down in the past month, a new CBS News poll has found. Obama's current approval rating is 57 percent, down by 11 points from its peak of 68 percent in April, and six points from last month's 63 percent.

June 8th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's ruling Labour Party appeared Sunday to be heading for a mauling in the elections for the European Parliament as first results showed a sharp fall in support compared with 2004. Results in the North-East region, a Labour stronghold, were down by nine percent, compared with 2004.

June 8th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing a new challenge to his leadership, as his party came third behind the Conservatives and the UKIP in the European elections. The British National Party won its first two European seats.

May 30th, 2009 LONDON - The British ministers' expenses scandal has had a devastating impact on the Labour Party and on Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for according to a populus poll for The Times found the Labour's overall position slide to 21 per cent, its lowest in polling history. When asked how they would vote in next week's European election, for the first time the Labour Party was placed way behind the UK Independence Party and the Tories.

April 24th, 2009 CHICAGO - US President Barack Obama's approval rating might be strong, but a new survey has revealed that first lady Michelle is more popular than him. In the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll survey, 79 percent people said they approve of the way Michelle Obama is handling the job of first lady.

April 5th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a huge boost in the polls due to the success of the G20 summit and President Barack Obama's visit. In the first survey since the summit ended on Thursday, 70 per cent of people thought the Prime Minister had handled events well.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Recessionary times have taken its toll on Britain's Labour party Ratings have slumped below 30 per cent for the first time since last September, shows the latest "poll of polls" for The Independent. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's personal rating has also fallen ack to where it was when he launched an unlikely fightback last.

January 26th, 2009 LONDON - Support for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is dipping amid a loss of voter-confidence in his ability to turn the economy around and reports of a resurgent opposition Tory party, according to two opinion polls published Tuesday. A Guardian-ICM poll, carried out after a second round of multi-billion pound bank bail-outs last week, showed only 31 percent of voters think that Brown's high-profile battle to turn around the economy will work.