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With the next general election potentially three and a half years years away, it is unwise to get too excited about opinion polls. But equally it would be a mistake to ignore them completely. They are like the backdrop to a stage: not the focus of attention, easy to overlook, but providing the context that explains what’s going on up front.
In that spirit I bring you the results from the latest regular Guardian/ICM poll. The Tories have a 16-point lead – one point down from our last poll. Here are the figures.
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