Labour support up, but Conservatives lead -poll

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown makes a foreign policy speech at the Guildhall during the Lord Mayor's Banquet in the City of London November 16, 2009.

LONDON (Reuters) - Support for the Labour Party has cut the Conservative's lead a little according to a new Guardian/ICM opinion poll, The Guardian newspaper said on Tuesday.

At the national level the Conservatives have 42 percent support to Labour's 29 percent, which would be enough to give the Tories a majority at the next election due by June.

Support for Labour was up two percentage points since October's Guardian/ICM poll.

The Liberal Democrat party is up one percentage point to 19 percent in the poll, but The Guardian said there is no sign of a surge in support for minor parties.

No one at ICM Research was available for immediate comment.

(Reporting by Sharon Lindores; Editing by Jon Hemming)