ICM post-debate poll

ICM did a rapid "who won" poll after the Paxman interviews with Cameron and Miliband tonight. Cameron won over Miliband by 54% to 46% - we won't know until the tables appear, but I expect that going to show Labour voters thinking Miliband won, Conservative voters thinking Cameron won, the rest splitting evenly and not many minds changed. Still, we'll see if there is any longer term effect in the next week's polls. I wouldn't have imagined there will be - while the debate was new in 2010, events like tonight's Paxman interviews or the leaders' Question Time style event next month aren't new - there were things just like that in2005 and 2001 and they made bog all difference to anything.

Meanwhile tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 36%, LAB 34%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 13%, GRN 5%. A Tory lead today after some ties and Labour leads so far this week, suggesting the underlying average in YouGov's daily polls is still neck-and-neck.

UPDATE: ICM tables are now up here (thanks to that fine man Tom Clark!). As expected, perceptions of who won fell pretty much along the lines of pre-existing party support - 84% of Conservatives thought Cameron won, 74% of Labour supporters thought Miliband won, Lib Dems were split, Ukippers thought Cameron won, Greens thought Miliband won. Note that while the sample was demographically and politically weighted to be nationally representative, it was a very heavily Labour sample in terms of current voting intention: the pre-debate voting intentions of the sample had an 10% Labour lead (thus are the difficulties of doing things like this - people who watch programmes like this are different from your average voter!)