The Sun has declined to comment on Liberal Democrat claims that it censored one of its own polls showing significant support for the party, The Independent reports.
Lib Dems are said to be angry that the pro-Tory Sun failed earlier this week to publish details of a YouGov poll - commissioned by the Murdoch-owned tabloid - which suggested that voters fear a Liberal Democrat government much less than a Conservative or Labour one.
The unpublished findings contained a raft of positives for the Nick Clegg's party - not least the suggestion that only 21 per cent viewed with dismay the prospect of a Lib Dem administration, against 45 per cent fearing the Tories and 51 per cent Labour. It further indicated that voters would switch to the Lib Dems in landslide-scale numbers if they thought the party had a significant chance of winning the election - an unlikely prospect under the current first-past-the-post system.
Prominent Lib Dem Loard Oakeshott told the Indy: "The numbers show that half the country cannot stand Gordon Brown and the other half can't stand David Cameron. I wonder why The Sun wouldn't share this news with its readers?"
YouGov president Peter Kellner said in a commentary on the unpublished poll that it was no longer outlandish to ask whether Clegg could end up as prime minister.
Friday 23 April 2010
Sun tight-lipped on poll 'censorship' claims | Charter 2010
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