Full report on the YouGov/Sunday Times poll
The tables for the YouGov/Sunday Times poll are now up here, with the usual range of issues: amongst others the budget, gay marriage, Prince Harry and Afghanistan.
As the overall voting intention figures seem to be heading back to the sort of position we were seeing last year, with Labour enjoying a 4 or 5 point lead, so do Ed Miliband's ratings. His net approval rating is up to minus 38 (from minus 44 last week). These are Miliband's most positive (or perhaps more accuately, least negative) ratings since they slumped at the beginning of January. David Cameron's approval meanwhile stands at minus 9 (from minus 6 last week), Nick Clegg's at minus 44 (from minus 47).
Turning to the budget questions, 73% of people support the Lib Dem idea of increasing the tax allowance through the adoption of a mansion tax. On the trade off between a 50p tax rate and a mansion tax, while people are more likely to see the 50p tax rate as both fairer than a mansion tax and more effective than a mansion tax, they are very evenly split on the idea of replacing the 50p rate with a mansion tax (34% would support it, 37% would oppose it). Asked what their view would be if the 50p tax rate didn't actually raise any extra money, 41% would abolish it, 40% would keep it anyway, suggesting that a fair amount of people support higher taxes on the rich regardless of whether or not it actually brings in money.
On abolishing higher rate tax relief on pension contributions YouGov asked a more detailed version of the question that a fortnight ago, actually explaining what higher rate tax relief was. The answers, however, were very similar to what we got with a simpler question: a pretty even split. 38% think higher rate tax relief on pensions should be scrapped, 39% think it should be kept.
Turning to the questions on gay marriage, 43% of people support gay marriage, 32% support civil partnerships but not gay marriage, 15% are opposed to both. Attitudes to the church's stance pretty much mirror this - 47% think they are right to oppose gay marriage, 37% think they are wrong. More generally, 62% of people think same-sex relationships are as valid as heterosexual ones, 27% do not. The percentage of people supporting gay marriage here is, incidentally, very similar to that in ICM's poll today in the Sunday Telegraph which found 45% in favour of gay marriage and 36% opposed.
Finally, on the issue of Afghanistan 40% of people think troops should be withdrawn now. YouGov have asked this question every fortnight since the election, and this is the highest level of support for immediate withdrawal we've seen (typically it is around 30%) - it would seem likely that the increase is due to the coverage of the death of six British soldiers this week.
UPDATE: Here is Peter Kellner's take on the gay marriage questions.
