ICM poll due tonight (plus ICM end of recession poll)

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ICM's monthly poll for the Guardian is due out later tonight, around about 6pm according to Mike Smithson. I'll be on a train about then, so those of you fortunate enough not to be commuting are free to discuss it here. ICM's last poll was immediately after the Hoon-Hewitt "attempted coup" broke, and had figures of CON 40%, LAB 30% and LDEM 18%.

I'm sure someone will put the new figures up in the comments once they surface, and I'll put up a proper post later on.

UPDATE: While you are waiting though, there's an ICM poll for Channel 4 News already (tables here).

ICM asked what people thought was responsible for the economy's recovery, assuming that tomorrow shows the country out of recession. Only 20% of people attributed it to the government, with a further 14% saying the Bank of England. 13% put it down to the private sector and 21% thought it was down to international recovery (worldwide factors 17%, the USA 3% or the EU 1%). 32% didn't know.

Asked if Britain coming out of recession would make people more or less likely to vote Labour, there was very little difference - 12% said it would make them more likely, but 10% said less likely, so little net gain. I should add my normal caveat about "more or less likely to vote X" being not much use, especially when they are not broken by voting intention so we can't see if those "more likely" people are already voting Labour anyway, or those "less likely" people are not.

And for methodology watchers, this was an online ICM poll (and for that reason, it's very unlikely it was done as part of the ICM/Guardian poll).