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This morning's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 30%, LAB 43%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 10%. It isn't the biggest Labour lead YouGov have shown this month, but (leaving aside a rather outlandish 29% back in April) it matches the lowest Conservative score this Parliament. UKIP, meanwhile, remain in double figures on 10%.

Yesterday afternoon there was also the weekly poll by TNS BMRB, which has topline figures of CON 30% (+4), LAB 40% (-1), LD 7% (-1), UKIP 12% (-4), OTHER 10% (+1). The increase for the Conservatives and the drop in UKIP support is probably no more than a reversion to the mean after an unusually high score for UKIP in their poll last week.

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