Angus Reid - 35/40/12

No daily YouGov poll tonight (the poll conducted today comes out tomorrow night for the Sunday Times), but unusually for a Friday night we do have some fresh figures from Angus Reid. Topline figures with changes from last month are CON 35%(nc), LAB 40%(-1), LDEM 12%(+3). The increase in Lib Dem support is likely reversion to the mean after a sharp four point drop in their poll last month.

This weekend we should have at least one and possibly more polls in Oldham East and Saddleworth. New entrants Survation have said they are conducting an automated telephone poll that is now due to appear at some point over the weekend, where there are also rumours of a standard telephone poll (that is, just rumours - I've no independent confirmation that anyone else is doing one before I see people going off and commenting that Anthony Wells is confirming the rumours. I'm just passing them on!)

UPDATE: The Survation poll is now going to be a traditional phone poll, not an automated one, and should be out in one of tomorrow's papers. There are also rumours (unconfirmed) of an ICM poll of Oldham East and Saddleworth in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph.

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