David Cameron is under fresh pressure after a poll put the party on just 27% - one of its lowest ratings of recent years. According to the Opinium research for the Observer, Ukip is just 10 points behind on 17% after luring voters away from the Tories and Labour. It also found the Prime Minister's personal rating dropped 8% in a fortnight to 18%. The latest study comes after a poll of marginal constituencies on Saturday suggested Labour would scoop 93 seats from the Conservatives and take the keys to No 10 if a general election was held on Monday. Senior figures have this weekend set out their agenda for trying to restore the party's fortunes. Former Defence Secretary Liam Fox criticised "multiple taxation of the same money", describing it as an "iniquity that creates the wrong pattern of behaviour". He told The Sunday Times: "We pay tax on our income. Then if we save we pay tax again. If we invest in businesses or property and try to move our money, we will be hit by capital gains tax or stamp duty. Finally, if we have the audacity to die, we get the indignity of inheritance tax." Theresa May fuelled speculation that she holds leadership ambitions with a speech to Tory grassroots that ranged across industrial policy, banking and the economy as well her usual turf of home affairs. She also reached out to the right out the party with a promise that a Conservative government would scrap the Human Rights Act and could go further by pulling out of its European obligations on rights altogether. At the conservativehome website's Victory 2015 conference, the Home Secretary said the party must "consider very carefully our relationship" with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), suggesting it was restricting Britain's ability to act in the national interest. "We need to stop human rights legislation interfering with our ability to fight crime and control immigration. That's why, as our last manifesto promised, the next Conservative government will scrap the Human Rights Act, and it's why we should also consider very carefully our relationship with the European Court of Human Rights and the convention it enforces." Mrs May said she expects the Conservative's public sector reform agenda to "become even more radical" and could include allowing companies to make a profit delivering frontline services. More private companies and charities should be brought in to run public services to improve quality and end the "monopoly" of the state, which is too often a "poor provider", Ms May said. "A future Conservative government should therefore go further in increasing the number of charities, companies and co-operatives that deliver frontline services. And if allowing those organisations to make a profit means we have a more diverse supply side and better outcomes, then that is something we should consider with an open mind." | 
