Angus Reid/Economist - 33/23/30

There is a new(ish) Angus Reid poll in the Economist here. Topline figures are CON 33%(+1), LAB 23%(nc), LDEM 30%(-3). Fieldwork was conducted over last weekend, Friday to Monday, so it's slightly out of date now. As usual with Angus Reid, it shows a far lower Labour score than other companies, and is still showing a comparatively high figure for others.

Interestingly they have prompted people with a mock up ballot paper of the candidates standing in their constituency, a method MORI always used to use after nominations have closed (I'm not sure if they still can now they have switched to phone polling) - while it's interesting, according to the Economist it didn't actually make any difference to the results.

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