ComRes/Daily Mail - CON 42, LAB 28, LDEM 8, UKIP 9, GRN 6

ComRes's monthly telephone poll for the Daily Mail is out today and has topline figures of CON 42%, LAB 28%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 9%, GRN 6%. The last time the Conservatives reached the heights of 42% in any poll was way back in 2010. Full tables for the poll are here.

The poll also had a bank of questions on perceptions of the four Labour leadership contenders and whether people would vote for them. In my last post I wrote about how such questions really don't tell us very much: none of the candidates are well known to the public, and how people would vote with x or y as leader is an extremely hypothetical question - what policies will they follow? How will the media and public react? Will the party be united, split or riven with dissent? I don't know and neither do the poll respondents.

For what it's worth though, the main finding here was how little there was to choose between the candidates. ComRes asked if people would vote for Labour with the four candidates, the spread was between Burnham and Corbyn on 22% down to Kendall on 18%. They asked who had what it took to be PM, Burnham, Cooper and Corbyn were essentially in a three way tie on 23%-24%. Given the standard margin of error on a poll this size, it suggests the wider public really aren't that enthused by any of them.