Ipsos MORI/Reuters - CON 34, LAB 38, LDEM 12

Ipsos MORI's monthly political monitor is out today, full details here. Topline voting intention figures with changes since last month are CON 34%(-1), LAB 38%(+1), LDEM 12%(-1), so no significant change on a month ago.

There's an interesting finding in the questions - MORI asked people how much they had worried about various things in the last two or three weeks, a repeat of a question from earlier on in the economic downturn in February 2009. The proportion of people who said they'd worried about paying their bills hadn't changed massively (in 2009 32% had, 66% had not. Now 37% had, 60% had not).

There was a much bigger shift in longer term worries though, people worrying about their retirement, or their children's future. In 2009, 21% of people said they'd worried about their retirement in the last few weeks with 60% saying they hadn't. The figures now are 34% had (up 13), and 41% hadn't (down 19). Similarly, in 2009 26% of people said they had recently worried about their children's job prospects, 55% had not. Those figures have now shifted to 35% who have worried, 38% have not.