Poll puts Labour 21 points behind
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party is struggling to win back any political ground from the resurgent opposition Conservative Party, an opinion poll showed on Sunday.
Hollywood stars seek early start to talksA ComRes poll for the Independent on Sunday put Brown's Labour on 25 percent, trailing 21 points behind the David Cameron's Conservatives with 46 percent support.
Both main parties had gained a point on last month's score in the ComRes poll, with the third party, the Liberal Democrats steady at 16 percent.
Brown has seen his opinion poll ratings plummet in the past six months, crushing a brief political honeymoon after he took over as Labour leader from former prime minister Tony Blair last June.
Despite persistent rumours of a possible leadership challenge, Brown insisted on Saturday that he still expected to be in the top job at Christmas.
The poll, which surveyed 1,014 adults across Britain on August 20 and 21, showed that only 72 percent of those who identified themselves as Labour supporters likely to take part in the next election said they would vote for Labour.
(Reporting by Kate Kelland. Editing by Richard Williams)
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