A ComRes poll for the Independent has shown that the gap between the Conservative Party and Labour has narrowed to just nine points.
If repeated at a general election David Cameron would be denied an overall majority by five seats.
The survey puts the Conservatives on 38 per cent, up one point on last month and nine points ahead of Labour who were up two points on 29 per cent. The Liberal Democrats were down one on 19 per cent.
And in further confirmation that Cameron has failed to "seal the deal" with the voters; people disagreed with the statement that “the Conservative Party offers an appealing alternative to the Labour Party” by a margin of 49 to 45 per cent.
A majority of those questioned, 52 to 44 per cent, agreed with the statement that: “a Conservative government would mainly represent the interests of the well-off rather than ordinary people.”
But despite constant Labour attacks on the Tories inheritance tax policy, it maintained the support of those surveyed by a margin of 55 to 38 per cent.
ComRes interviewed 1,006 adults between the 19th and 20th of December.
Dods Parliamentary Communications Ltd