BPIX have lowest ever Labour rating
At least two polls in tomorrow's papers.
ComRes in the Independent on Sunday is still to come, but we already have some details from a BPIX poll in the Mail on Sunday, which has topline figures with changes from last week of CON 42%(-3), LAB 20%(-3), LDEM 15%(-2). That gives a total for others right up at 23%, which if it as anything like the YouGov poll in the Sun probably includes a significant increase for UKIP.
As far as I'm aware this is the lowest level of support Labour have ever recorded in an opinion poll, though they have not yet matched the absolute worst polls the Conservatives suffered during the darkest days of the Major government (in 1995 the Conservatives hit 18.5% in a Gallup poll, though those were polls that had yet to really correct the mistakes of 1992).
While all of the three main parties have dropped, David Cameron himself seems to be emerging comparatively well from the political crisis. Asked how well the party leaders have responded to the situation, only 17% think Brown has handled it well, 53% think Cameron has.
The poll also included European voting intention figures, which stand at CON 30%, LAB 17%, UKIP 17%, LDEM 15%. Slighter better for the Conservatives than the YouGov poll in the week, but showing a similarly tight battle for second place between Labour, UKIP and the Liberal Democrats.
