Britain's Conservatives take 3 point lead

London - Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party has taken a 3 percentage point lead over the opposition Labour Party, according to a Survation poll for The Mail on Sunday newspaper ahead of the 7 May election.

The poll put the Conservatives up 3 percentage points on 33%, with support for Labour dropping 4 percentage points to 30%.

With less than two weeks to go before the election, most opinion polls have shown voters fairly evenly split between Britain's two main political parties, meaning neither is likely to win enough seats to hold a clear parliamentary majority.

The poll put support for the anti-European Union UK Independence Party (UKIP) at 18%, while support for the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in the coalition, was at 9%. The Greens were on 4%.