Can Labour improve its poll results before the election?

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KEY POINTS:

• Can Labour further improve its poll results before the election?

Labour has closed the gap on National to 11 points in the new TV3 political opinion poll, the latest in a series of surveys indicating a tightening race.

The TV3/TNS poll had Labour up 2 percentage points to 37 and National steady on 48. National's 11-point lead over Labour is down from a 15-point margin in the same poll in May.

Prime Minister Helen Clark says the trend coming through in polling was positive, but there was still a lot of work for her party to do.

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