The Conservatives have raced into a record 24-point opinion poll lead among those certain to vote as Labour hit a 30-year-plus voter rating low.
Any hopes of a "Beijing bounce" for Gordon Brown on the back of Britain's Olympic successes were dashed by the latest monthly Ipsos/Mori survey.
Twice as many electors said they would vote Tory as Labour (48% to 24%) at the next general election, the biggest gap recorded since the pollster's records began in 1977. It is four points wider than a month ago - with Labour dropping three.
Among all the 1,005 voters polled by telephone between August 15-17, the Tories enjoyed a 14-point lead by 42% to 28% - with the Opposition up two on last month.
Meanwhile on his way to Beijing via Kabul the Prime Minister
brushed aside questions about his leadership and vowed that Labour would win the next election.
The prime minister said there would be no autumn reshuffle, instead hinting that his government would bring forward a package of measures in September to help those hardest hit by the credit crunch.Speaking to journalists as he travelled to the Olympics, the prime minister rejected Tory claims that it was now impossible for Labour to win the next election.
"We are going to go on and win," he said. "We are getting on with the job.
Now something has got to give
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