Another case for a snap election

On the same topic take a look at Tim Montgomerie's take on the Tory response to the Brown bounce.George Osborn's article in yesterday's Evening Standard set the tone for the fight back and it seems that team Cameron are as yet unfazed by the limelight the Prime Minister and Chancellor are enjoying.

They expect the Conservatives' poll lead to drop into single figures in the next month or so. They expect to lose the Conservative lead on economic competence but expect it to be restored by the new year.

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They have decided it's largely impossible to compete for serious airtime with Government at this time. They note that frenetic activity by Vince Cable is doing nothing to reverse the LibDems' slide in the polls.

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the leadership does not expect that Brown will win any long-term credit for any of this. Brown, we were told, will soon have seen to have saved the banks but not averted recession and there aren't many votes in that. They are cataloguing evidences of Labour "triumphalism" at recent events for later use.

Another case fro calling an early election then.