New poll confirms rise of British anti-EU party
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Buy SPH photosLONDON (AFP) - A new poll out Sunday confirmed a surge in support for Britain's anti-EU UK Independence Party, as Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives fell further behind the Labour opposition.
Right-wingers UKIP hit 17 per cent - a record high in a ComRes poll - in the survey conducted for The Independent on Sunday and the Sunday Mirror newspapers.
The poll put centre-left Labour on 37 per cent, the centre-right Conservatives on 28 per cent and the Liberal Democrats - their centrist partners in the governing coalition - on just nine percent.
Recent poor poll showings have fuelled calls from restive backbench Conservative lawmakers for a decisive shift to the right to counter the electoral threat posed by UKIP, though Cameron has resisted the notion.
