Voters prefer Cameron over PM’s rival

A new poll has found that voters would overwhelmingly vote in favour of David Cameron regardless of who leads Labour into the next general election. A new Guardian/ICM poll suggests that David Miliband is no more appealing as leader than Gordon Brown.

Miliband would be no more popular, the survey found. Those asked to choose the best prime minister between Cameron and Brown, or Cameron and Miliband, preferred the Conservative leader both times - by the same 21 per cent margin.

Brown returns from his summer holidays today with Labour mired in its worst August rating since the early Eighties, 15 points behind the Tories.