Catching Up

I am back from a week's holiday when I haven't been posting much. To fill in what I missed, the most recent voting intention figures from Friday and today are:

YouGov/Sun - CON 32%, LAB 39%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 10% (tabs) Populus - CON 30%, LAB 38%, LDEM 12%, UKIP 12% (tabs) Opinium/Observer - CON 29%, LAB 36%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 18%

Also of interest from the last few days, YouGov found that only 20% of (over eighteen!) people supported reducing the voting age to 16, 60% were opposed. Earlier in the week there was also some YouGov polling on the David Miranda affair - people thought it was right that the security services had such powers by 66% to 22%, but by 44% to 37% thought David Miranda's detainment was not an appropriate use of the law. That's not to say the general public paid much attention to the Miranda affair - on Populus's weekly poll of what news stories people noticed only 4% mentioned it, with Egypt (18%), the Peru drug smuggling girls (15%) and Syria (13%) the most recalled stories.

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