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Liberal Democrat support slashed in Summer poll

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Labour’s frontbench can go on their Summer holidays with a small sense of schadenfreude as the latest opinion poll justifies their relentless assault on the Lib Dems since the election. The people who campaigned against early cuts and VAT increases have been rumbled and their vote halved, The Telegraph reports:

The YouGov survey for the Sunday Times also recorded a steep nosedive in the popularity of the party’s leader Nick Clegg since he became Deputy Prime Minister by taking the Lib Dems into coalition Government with the Conservatives.

Mr Clegg’s personal satisfaction rating was eight points, compared to the spectacular 72 points he achieved in the wake of the first televised leaders’ debate during the election campaign.

Today’s poll suggested that Tories have not suffered in the same way from going into coalition.

David Cameron’s party were up five points since the General Election on 42per cent, with Labour gaining ground on them – up eight points since the Election on 38per cent.

The Lib Dems rating was half the 24per cent the party won in the election and the lowest since October 2007, when Sir Menzies Campbell was forced out as leader.

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