Ed Miliband's approval rating slumps to 21% - but we still think he'd win a general election

 
Hands up: Ed Miliband is failing to win the public's approval
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Pa|Staff25 August 2013
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Just 21 per cent of people think Ed Miliband is doing a good job, a new poll shows today.

The rating, down from 28 per cent in April, means the Labour leader is doing worse than David Cameron - at 32 per cent - but better than Nick Clegg. Only 17 per cent said the Liberal Democrat leader was doing a good job.

The research, by ICM for the Sunday Telegraph, found that more than half of those asked - 51% - thought Mr Miliband was doing badly.

However, the poll found that most people still believed Labour would win if a general election was held tomorrow.

Some 32 per cent thought the party would emerge victorious, while 30 per cent backed the Tories and 16 per cent the Lib Dems.

ICM director Martin Boon compared Mr Miliband's leadership to Iain Duncan Smith's spell in charge of the Conservatives.

"Ed Miliband is not in a good place. Only a fifth of voters are satisfied with his performance," he said. "It's difficult to imagine that things could be any worse for him, or indeed how he can succeed in turning the public around.

"He is becoming Labour's IDS and if it carries on like this it's hard not to think that we'll be seeing Conservative polling leads very soon."

ICM surveyed 2,013 people online between August 21 and August 23.

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