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22 October 2010updated 12 Oct 2023 10:16am

Lib Dems hit new poll low of 10 per cent

Support for party plummets to lowest level in 13 years.

By George Eaton

One Liberal Democrat cabinet minister recently predicted that the spending cuts would see support for his party fall to 5 per cent. Things aren’t that bad yet, but the latest daily YouGov poll puts the Lib Dems on just 10 per cent — their lowest rating since September 1997 (an ICM poll at the time had Labour on 60, the Tories on 24 and the Lib Dems on 10).

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