But ComRes show Tories recovering
A new ComRes poll in the Sunday Independent has topline figures, with changes from the most recent ComRes poll of CON 43% (+4), LAB 32% (+1) LDEM 12% (-4). I'm please to note than on his blog reporting the figures John Rentoul is drawing a comparison from the most recent ComRes poll in the Indy, rather than the older one in the Sunday Indy. The poll was conducted between the 12th and 13th November - Wednesday and Thursday - so as with YouGov, the fieldwork straddles the PMQs exchange about "baby p" and it's hard to say if any effect would show up or not.
This is the first poll from any pollster for a while to show any significant boost in the Conservative vote - the trend has been of slight falls in Conservative support and Labour recovery. As ever, I'd treat a poll that appears to contradict the trend in all the other polls with some scepticism unless we see some other polls showing a Conservative boost - that goes double given the extremely low Liberal Democrat score, equalling their lowest recorded under Clegg.
The other questions in the poll found 48% of people thought that the team around David Cameron was lightweight, 57% thought that Gordon BRown should not take most of the blame for unemployment. 54% of people still think that Labour will lose the election regardless of who leads it (for comparison, 68% thought this in July).
Finally, and most significantly, 75% thought that any tax cuts should be paid for by cutting spending rather than borrowing more, only 17% disagreed. With all the parties proposing various tax cuts the dividing lines are becoming, firstly, the specifics of which tax cuts they are proposing, and more fundementally whether they should be funded by borrowing or not. There have not been many questions directly addressing it yet, but as in this case, those I've seen have all show a very hostile public reaction to extra borrowing.
