London: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's personal rating has gone up but his governing Labour Party is still well behind in the opinion polls, surveys out on Sunday showed.
A YouGov poll for The Sunday Times newspaper found Brown's personal rating was up 10 points since last month to its highest level since April 2009.
However, twice as many voters still think Brown is performing badly rather than well (32 percent to 64 percent).
And he is still far behind Conservative main opposition leader David Cameron (56 percent well, 34 percent badly) and Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg (47 percent well, 26 percent badly).
The YouGov poll put the centre-right Conservatives on 40 percent, nine points ahead of centre-left Labour on 31 percent -- figures unchanged since last month. The centre-left
Lib Dems were on 18 percent.
Meanwhile, a separate poll by ComRes for The Independent on Sunday put the Tories gaining four percentage points for a 13-point lead.
Their survey put the Conservatives on 42 percent, with Labour and the Lib Dems unchanged on 29 and 19 percent respectively since their December 22 poll.
The general election campaign is warming up in Britain, with the two biggest parties pencilling out their battle lines.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 14:43