Conservatives remain 14 points ahead

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According to the Press Association (and Vincent Moss!) there is a new YouGov poll in the Sunday Times. The topline figures, with changes from YouGov's most recent poll just over a week ago, are CON 41%(nc), LAB 27%(nc), LDEM 18%(+1).

Clearly there is no real change here, with the Conservative lead sticking at 14 points. There is also a ComRes poll due out tonight. I don't have the full figures yet, but Henry Macrory has twittered that it too shows a Conservative lead of 14 points (their last poll had a 13 point Tory lead).

UPDATE: The ComRes poll is now up on their website. The topline figures are CON 39%(-1), LAB 25%(-2), LDEM 17%(-1).

The same 14 point lead as YouGov, but all three parties are slightly lower and "others" are up by 4 points to 19%, the highest level of support for smaller parties in any poll since June (and significantly higher than anyone but Angus Reid - other than them no one has had them above 15 since September). It breaks down to Green 6%(+1), UKIP 5%(+2), BNP 3%(+1), SNP 3%(nc), PC 1%(+0.5%), so the biggest increase was UKIP, but all the minor parties have increased.

ComRes asked some questions on Afghanistan, showing the now normal lack of public support, but more interestingly they asked whether people thought the Sun was unfair in its treatment of Gordon Brown's letter to the mother of Jamie Janes - 60% of people thought it was.