Guardian/ICM: Some Good News Buried for Gordon

Looking again at today's Guardian/ICM poll, previewed yesterday, we feel that this is the most interesting paragraph:

Mr Brown has a narrow one-point lead - 40% to 39% - over David Cameron as the man voters think would be most likely to take the right decisions when the going got tough. But the Tory leader has closed the gap since September when the question was last asked. Then, he trailed the chancellor by seven points, 32% to 25%.

Another way of reporting this would be:

Whatever the answers to more whimsical questions are Mr Brown has a lead - and growing ratings - on the when-the-going-gets-tough question. The going is always tough in government so this is a very powerful measure of confidence.