Shimon Peres has already jumped to some conclusions from the present election - on behalf of Ehud Barak. “Ehud will have to draw conclusions from his failure,” he told CNN today. “He should have given me a chance to run in this election, given the polls - which are, after all, the voice of the public.” Peres himself has been tripped up in past elections by polls which mistakenly predicted a victory for him. Barak has said recently that even if he loses, he will not step down from the leadership of the Labor party.