Tories out in front in Crewe

According to an ICM poll for the Mail on Sunday, the Conservative candidate in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election has a good chance of winning the seat. Could the Tories be on target to snatch a win from Labour for the first time since 1982?

The poll puts the Tories on 43%, Labour on 39% and the Liberal Democrats on 16%. Whatever the Labour Party may be telling the electors of Crewe it doesn't seem to be working. Gordon Brown is seen as a tetchy grump who is nowhere near being the Prime Minister he so deftly portrayed himself as being capable of when second-in-line to Blair. The whole sorry pantomime is unravelling. There isn't a chance they could come in tenth is there? Wishful thinking, I know!