Labour recovery in latest Populus poll

Populus's monthly poll for the Times shows a significant drop in the Conservative lead. The topline figures, with changes from Populus's last poll, are apparently CON 41%(-4), LAB 28%(+3), LDEM 19%(-1).

Interestingly YouGov's last poll also showed a recovery for Labour. Two polls are perhaps a bit too early to discern a trend, but it does looks as though they have begun to bounce back from the awful figures we saw after the local elections. Perhaps it is just memories of that humiliation fading, or perhaps it is the series of bad news stories the Tories have faced since then - Spelman, MEPs, Ray Lewis, David Davis - that have started to have an effect. The problem for Gordon Brown is, of course, that unless he manages to hold Glasgow East any nascent recovery is going to be wiped out by another huge by-election loss.