ComRes/Indy/Sunday Mirror - CON 41, LAB 26, LD 11, UKIP 11
ComRes have a poll in Sunday's Independent and the Sunday Mirror. Most interestingly, it found that people agreed by 45% to 39% that John Bercow was right to refuse to invite Donald Trump to address the Commons, but also that people thought by 47% to 37% that the Queen should meet Donald Trump if he visits the country. As we've already seen elsewhere, the British public have little sympathy for Donald Trump's immigration policy (33% think he was right, 52% think he was wrong) though it's worth noting that the question wording went considerably wider than Trump's actual policy (ComRes asked about halting immigration from "Muslim-majority" countries in general, whereas Donald Trump's policy deals with seven specific countries they claim have an issue with terrorism or vetting).
The poll also had voting intention figures of CON 41%, LAB 26%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 11%, GRN 4%. This is the first ComRes voting intenton poll since way back in June 2016 - after one of the poorer performing polls in the EU referendum (the final ComRes poll had Remain eight points ahead), they paused their voting intention polls while they conducted a review into their methods. They have now recommenced voting intention polls with - as far as I can tell - no changes to their pre-referendum methods. ComRes's view appears to be that the referendum was an exceptional event, and while the turnout model they adopted after the polling errors of 2015 worked badly there, it worked well at the London mayoral election, so is being retained for Westminster polls. For better or for worse, the ComRes results seem to be very much in line with those from other companies, with a Conservative lead in the mid-teens.
Full tabs for the ComRes poll are here.
While I'm here, I should also mention a BMG Scottish poll that came out at the start of the week (I've been laid low with a heavy cold). Voting intention in a second independence referendum stood at YES 49%(+3.5%), NO 49%(-3.5%). This is the lowest lead for NO that any Scottish Indy poll has recorded since the EU referendum. This was interpreted by the Herald as a response to Theresa May's announcement of her negotiating stance on Brexit. I think that is somewhat premature - so far we've had two Scottish polls conducted since May's speech, a Panelbase poll showing a very small (and not statistically significant) movement towards NO and a BMG poll showing a somewhat larger (but still barely significant) movement towards YES. In short, there is nothing yet that couldn't be normal sample variation - wait for the next few polls on attitudes towards Scottish independence before concluding whether there is or is not any movement. Full tabs are here
