Latest London and EU polls
ComRes published a new London poll yesterday. As with all the other recent London polling we've seen it puts Sadiq Khan in a relatively comfortable first place. First preference votes are KHAN 44%(+2), GOLDSMITH 37%(-2), PIDGEON 7%(+1), WHITTLE 5%(nc), BERRY 4%(-2), GALLOWAY 2%(+1). With second preferences reallocated it works out at KHAN 55%, GOLDSMITH 45%. Full tabs are here.
Looking at the detailed tabs three-quarters of people who voted Tory in 2015 say they'll vote for Goldsmith, four-fifths of Labour's 2015 vote say they'll back Khan. At the general election London voted Labour by a substantial margin and they got a substantial swing in their favour, at the 2010 election Labour also outperfomed in London. It is becoming an increasingly Labour city. Boris managed to break that link and win despite being a Conservative, clearly winning votes from people who did not support the Conservative party (on the same day that Boris won re-election as mayor the Labour party easily won the election for the London Assembly). Thus far Goldsmith and Khan don't really appear to be doing that, the vote is splitting largely along normal party lines and that should result in a win for Sadiq Khan.
Meanwhile we've had three new EU referendum polls since my last update. ICM and YouGov have both published polls conducted online and showing one point leads for REMAIN. ICM's figures are REMAIN 44%, LEAVE 43%, DK 13% (full details here), YouGov's are REMAIN 39%, LEAVE 38%, DK/WNV 23% (full details here).
There was also new ORB telephone poll for the Telegraph. This is a little more interesting - regular readers will remember the last ORB phone poll was the one showing a Leave lead, extremely unusual for a poll conducted by telephone. This poll shows a seven point lead for REMAIN (REMAIN 51%, LEAVE 44%, DK 5%) far more typical of other polls conducted by phone. Full tabs are here.
