Latest Opinium and YouGov polls

Two polls tonight - Opinium in the Observer have topline figures of CON 34%, LAB 33%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 13%, GRN 7% (tabs). All par for the course, and fieldwork was on the 24th and 25th March, so prior to the Paxman interviews on Thursday.

More intriguing is YouGov's weekly poll for the Sunday Times. Fieldwork for this was done on Friday and Saturday, so was wholly after the Paxman interviews. Topline figures there are CON 32%, LAB 36%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 13%, GRN 6%. A four point Labour lead. I'll write more tomorrow, but I'll leave you with the usual caveats, it's just one poll, it could be boost for Labour from the interviews or it could just be normal random variation, only time (and subsequent polling) will tell...

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