Ipsos-MORI/Standard - CON 39, LAB 37, LDEM 10

Ipsos MORI's monthly political monitor poll for the Standard was published yesterday. Topline voting intentions were CON 39%, LAB 37%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 5%. The two point lead is unchanged from MORI's previous poll in September, and are very much in line with the other recent voting intention polls since my last update. YouGov and Kantar polls last week both showed 5 point Conservative leads, a Survation poll a one point Tory lead.

While voting intention polls continue to show a small Tory lead, the underlying figures remain poor. People don't rate the government or the Prime Minister (net satisfaction for the government is minus 48, for Theresa May it's minus 32), economic optimism is low (61% expect the general economic condition of the country to get worse over the next year) and confidence in May's ability to get a good Brexit deal continues to trickle downwards, this latest poll has 19% saying they are confident, 78% saying they are not.

Full tabs for the MORI poll are here.

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