A little good news for Brown

The latest opinion poll in this morning's Sunday Times brings little surprise

The YouGov poll shows David Cameron’s Tories in a 20-point lead, down narrowly from last month’s 22 points, while Labour’s support is at 25%, where it has been stuck every month since May, suggesting this may be as low as the party can go. The Conservatives have edged down from their peak of 47%, which the party enjoyed in June and July, to 45%. The Liberal Democrats are up from 16% to 18%.

As the paper points out,Gordon Brown will take a little comfort from one of the side questions which suggested that

he is well ahead in the public mind of his main rival for the Labour leadership, David Miliband.
The foreign secretary, who has failed to quell speculation that he is plotting a challenge to Brown, is regarded by only 21% of voters as potentially a better prime minister. Brown, rated as a better leader by 38% of voters, enjoys a two-to-one lead over his rival. Among Labour supporters, Brown is ahead by 51% to 21%.

However he will hoping that the gap in the public's mind starts to narrow as the political season gets going again in September