Voters trust Ed Miliband even less than Gordon Brown
ED Miliband suffered fresh humiliation in a YouGov poll yesterday after voters viewed him as less trustworthy than Gordon Brown.
He was also deemed to be not as competent or decisive as the former Prime Minister.
Mr Miliband scored at consistently poorer levels than Mr Brown after the 2010 general election defeat. But voters saw him as a better Labour leader than Mr Brown, by 32 per cent to 17 per cent.
On other issues he scored poorly with 50 per cent seeing him as out of touch, dithering, weak or unclear about what he stood for.
Fewer than one in five thought him decisive or strong.
More saw him as incompetent rather than competent, untrustworthy instead of trustworthy and the attribute ascribed to him by most voters – 57 per cent – was that he dithered.
Labour donor John Mills – boss of shopping giant JML – warned the party does not have a “clear idea on getting the economy going”.
Tory spokesman Bob Neill said: “Even one of Labour’s biggest donors knows that Ed Miliband offers no leadership.”