Latest YouGov, Populus and TNS figures

This morning's daily YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 32%, LAB 40%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 12%. Full tabs are here. With YouGov's polls having narrowed a bit of late, it's actually the biggest Labour lead they've shown since the end of August. Normal caveats apply - it could be the positive publicity and policy announcements of Labour's conference, or could just be perfectly normal variation within the margin of error.

Meanwhile the Monday version of Populus's twice-weekly poll showed results of CON 33%, LAB 39%, LDEM 14%, UKIP 9%. Positive for the Lib Dems following their conference, but otherwise pretty typical of Populus's recent polls. Full tabs here.

Finally there was a new TNS BMRB poll yesterday, their once weekly voting intention polls having become rather sporadic (the previous published one I can find was back in June). Topline figures are CON 29%(+1), LAB 39%(nc), LDEM 9%(-2), UKIP 14%(+1) - changes are apparently from a poll a fortnight ago that I don't believe was released at the time. Full tabs are here.

Note that in this case the ten point lead is certainly NOT a reflection of Labour's recent policy announcements - fieldwork for the poll was conducted from the 12th-16th September, so was actually mostly done before the Lib Dem conference, let alone the Labour one.

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