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Lib Dems get new hope for two parliamentary by-elections - Peter Riddell, The Times
July 6, 2004 11:30 AM
In a new opinion poll, by Populus, the Liberal Democrats are up two points this month to 24 per cent, the party's highest rating since last February. The Tories are on 29 per cent, and Labour on 33 per cent.
Peter Riddell of The Times said "The poll, undertaken over the weekend, will boost Liberal Democrat hopes of doing well in the two parliamentary by-elections, in Leicester East and Birmingham Hodge Hill, on July 15."
The Liberal Democrats 24 per cent rating compares with 19 per cent at the 2001 general election. At the same stage of the last Parliament, the Liberal Democrats rating was in the midteens.