ComRes show 8 point Labour lead

Two new polls tonight. YouGov's daily poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 40%, LAB 43%, LDEM 8%. These are pretty much in line with YouGov's recent polls, a Labour lead of 3 points over the Conservatives, the Lib Dems on around 8-9% (YouGov tend to show the lowest Lib Dem figure of the regular pollsters, and consequentially their Conservative and Labour figures are both a bit higher, though the lead is normally in the same sort of area).

ComRes, meanwhile, has topline figures of CON 34%(-2), LAB 42%(+2), LDEM 12% (nc). Changes are from the last poll ComRes conducted by telephone, at the tail end of November, rather than their parallel online polls they conduct for the Independent on Sunday. The eight point Labour lead is the largest lead Labour have secured so far this Parliament and the 34% is the lowest the Conservatives have scored. Angus Reid have given Labour some 5 and 6 point leads, and have shown the Conservatives at 35%, but have tended to show lower Conservative positions than other pollsters since the election. ICM, MORI and YouGov are typically showing Labour leads of around two or three points.

I'd add my normal caveat about being wary of polls showing something unusual until they are confirmed by further polls - other polls may comfirm it as the sign of a further drop in Tory support (though the YouGov daily poll doesn't seem to be picking it up), or it may turn out to be a rogue.

In ComRes's other questions - they found 58% disagreed with the statement that Britain was better off with a coalition government than a single party. 36% though Ed Miliband was proving a good leader of the Labour party with 42% disagreeing (figures for Clegg were 37% thinking he was doing a good job, 52% disagree. Finally 36% thought that Labour would do a better job than the coalition on the economy, but 54% disagreed.