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Fightback: The Prime Minister admitted it's time for the Tories to 'raise our game'
David Cameron was hit by fresh poll woes today as he tried to draw a line under a slew of recent difficulties for the Government.
In a sign of the challenge facing the Prime Minister as he attempts to fight back against his critics, an ICM survey for The Guardian found support for the Tories had slumped dramatically in the past month.
Labour's poll rating has risen to 41per cent - its highest score by that pollster since 2003 - while support for the Tories has fallen by six points to 33 per cent.
Mr Cameron's three-point lead a month ago has been replaced by an eight-point lead for Labour leader Ed Miliband.
A YouGov poll for The Sun put Labour on 45 per cent, 13 points ahead of Tories on 32 per cent.
David Cameron sought yesterday to blame the Government's recent difficulties on communication problems.
Amid continued criticism of the coalition's performance, the Prime Minister insisted it was taking the right actions but was 'sometimes' failing to get its message across.
But a committee of MPs today put government blunders down to a failure of strategic thinking by ministers.
In a scathing report, the Commons Public Administration Committee said the lack of a proper national strategy lay behind a string of 'mistakes', from the Budget to the threatened strike by tanker drivers.
It said too much policy was driven by short-term decision-making and attacked the 'poor quality' of national strategy in Whitehall.
Mishaps: The Commons Public Administration Committee said the lack of a proper national strategy lay behind a string of 'mistakes', from the Budget to the threatened strike by tanker drivers
It warned that 'chaotic strategy' risked creating a 'vicious circle', where weak leadership led to bad policy, further undermining public trust in government.
The Government has faced a barrage of attacks over controversial tax measures in the Budget and its handling of issues such as the planned strike by fuel tanker drivers and the failed attempt to deport radical cleric Abu Qatada.
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries yesterday accused Mr Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne of being 'arrogant posh boys' with no understanding of ordinary voters.
Scathing: Conservative MP Nadine Dorries branded Cameron and Osborne 'two posh boys'
The Prime Minister insisted he understood the challenges facing people struggling to pay their bills and suggested the coalition's troubles were down to poor communication.
Mr Cameron added: 'If you don't communicate what you are doing properly, then yes, you have got a problem,' he told BBC News.
'Sometimes we have got the action right but the message hasn't been right.'
The Prime Minister conceded the Government needed to 'raise our game' but insisted his 'driving vision' remained intact and defended his own performance in Number 10.
'You have difficult weeks or difficult months. I want us to raise our game and do better. But the vision and the long term are what matters.'
He went on: 'In two years, to have a couple of bad months is not surprising.'
ICM Research interviewed a random sample of 1,000 adults by telephone on April 20-22. YouGov interviewed 1,651 British adults on April 22-23.
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