The New Nation - Internet Edition

AFP, London

Nearly half of all British voters want the main opposition party in power rather than Prime Minister Gordon Brown's governing Labour, a poll released Sunday showed. The survey makes for more negative news for Brown's government, with more people responding that Conservative Party leader David Cameron would make a better prime minister than Brown. Brown's administration has already been beset by a series of scandals in recent months, from a banking crisis to the losses of millions of Britons' personal data, as well as a Labour Party funding row. Some 48 percent of voters in the ComRes survey for The Independent agreed with the statement, "It's time for a change and the next government should be a Conservative one." By contrast, just 36 percent preferred a Labour government. Cameron was backed by 39 percent of respondents as the candidate who would make the best prime minister, while 37 percent supported Brown.