ComRes - 40/34/14

ComRes's new poll for the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Mirror is out. Topline figures are CON 40%(+1), LAB 34%(-2), LDEM 14%(-1), Others 12%(+2). Changes are since ComRes's last online poll, conducted just after the Labour conference.

The 34% for Labour is quite poor by recent standards, but ICM and ComRes have tended to show lower scores for them (ICM probably as a knock on of showing a higher Lib Dem score, ComRes probably as a knock on of showing a higher "others" score).

With a new shadow chancellor in situ, ComRes have also been the first to ask a question on whether people trust Cameron & Osborne or Miliband & Johnson more to handle the recession. Cameron & Osborne lead by 45% to 23%.

This was, incidentally, another online ComRes poll - I'm sure sure if all their polls for the Indy stable are going to be online now, when they published their first online poll they said they would be using both modes in parallel, but both polls since then have been further online ones. UPDATE - Andrew Hawkins tells me they still doing both phone and online, the conference season just messed up the rota a bit.

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