London, UK Newly elected governments invariably claim that they have a "mandate" to do everything they promised to do during the election campaign and to refrain from doing everything they promised not to do. Gallup's post-election survey for The Telegraph suggests that the Blair Government has a renewed mandate to govern but not much more. There is a marked gap between Labour's campaign pledges negative and positive and what a majority of voters would like to see happen.
London, U.K. Gallup's eve-of-poll survey for The Daily Telegraph confirms the impression that the two main parties and their leaders have been largely wasting their time over the past four weeks.