More from Sunday's YouGov poll
As usual the Sunday Times asked questions on a wide variety of subjects, so here's some interesting highlights.
On leader approval ratings, Gordon Brown's net approval stands at minus 46, Cameron's at plus 24, and Nick Clegg's at plus 15. That's his highest rating to date on this series by some distance. The poll was conducted on Thursday and Friday, so after both the government defeat over Gurkhas and straight after Nick Clegg's "stupidity" attack at PMQs, which got a lot of media coverage.
Asked about SATs, 50% of respondents thought they should be scrapped completely, 21% preferred the government's policy of retaining English and Maths SATs but dropping science, 18% would prefer all three remained.
On Swine Flu, 49% thought the government's response was correct, 45% thought it was an overreaction (if I'd have been asking the question I'd have given people the choice of underreaction to, just to cover all the bases, but there goes).
On the Royal Mail, only 20% of people supported the Royal Mail being completely or partially privatised. 32% said they would prefer it to be run as a publicly-owned not-for-profit company, 37% would prefer it retained as publicly-owned corporation as at present.
Finally, on the issue of Gurkhas 74% of respondents thought that there should be no restictions and all former Gurkhas should have the right to settle in the UK, with another 14% supporting more relaxed criteria. Only 4% thought the present restrictions were right.
The poll also had voting intentions for the European elections, of which more later.
