Meanwhile, in GB polling...

This week will obviously be dominated by Scottish polling - we have Opinium's first Scottish referendum poll tonight, and possibly a Panelbase poll, and then final call polls from at least YouGov, MORI, Opinium and Survation next week. In the meantime though a quick detour to update the latest GB voting intention polls; we had three of them on Friday:

Populus - CON 33%, LAB 37%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 13% (tabs) Ipsos MORI - CON 34%, LAB 33%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 15% (tabs) YouGov - CON 31%, LAB 35%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 16% (tabs)

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