British Prime Minister Gordon Brown denied Monday that his Labour party's recent poor performance in the polls forced him to decide not to call an early election.
"I have a vision for a change in Britain and I want to show people how in government we are implementing it," Brown said last Saturday as he ruled out calling a general election this year or next.
His remarks came amid speculation that he would call an early election in October or November, after Labour's lead in national polls was pegged back dramatically by the Conservatives.
Late last month, a YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph put Labour 11 points ahead of the Tories, but Sunday, one poll in the News Of The World gave the Conservatives a six-point lead, a score that would have seen Brown's Commons majority wiped out and resulted in a hung parliament.
The latest survey for the News Of The World also suggested the Conservatives led by David Cameron would have deposed 49 Labour MPs.
In response to Brown's decision not to call early elections, Cameron said Brown had shown "great weakness and indecision" and had made a "humiliating retreat."
Labour ministers admitted that there had been severe presentational and strategic errors in the past weeks, and in retrospect it had been a mistake talking up an early election.
Source: Xinhua
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