More from the YouGov/Sunday Times poll

The full tables for this week's YouGov/Sunday Times poll are now up here, and cover mainly the ongoing phone hacking affair.

So far 36% of people think David Cameron has handled the phone hacking affair well, 48% badly. In comparison, 49% think Ed Miliband has handled it well, 28% badly. This has fed through into Miliband's overall leadership ratings, though they remain solidly negative - 32% now think he is doing well (up from 26% a fortnight ago before the story reached its peak), 53% think he is doing badly (down from 60% a fortnight ago). In contrast, despite people thinking Cameron's handled the issue badly, his overall rating has remained largely steady over the last two weeks.

Still on the question of how people have handled the phone hacking saga, 69% of people think the police have handled it badly (only 16% think they have done it well), 79% think News Corporation have handled it badly. Respondents were also negative about other newspapers' reactions - only 25% think they have handled it well, 43% think they have handled it badly. 80% of people think News Corp were right to drop the BSkyB bid.

There is overwhelming agreement that the relationship between newspaper owners/editors is too close to politicians (76% agree) and to the police (69% agree), and strong support for a register of meetings between ministers and journalists, reporters as well as editors and proprietors.

While the public remain overwhelmingly hostile towards the idea of journalists breaking the law to get stories (71% still think it is never acceptable), their opinion of "underhanded tactics" to get a story that's in the public interest has softened somewhat - a week ago only 37% of people thought underhanded tactics were acceptable in the public interest, but that has now risen to 48%. A majority of people also thought that newspapers hiring private investigators was acceptable when trying to expose criminal behaviour or corruption, but not to look at people's financial dealings or love affairs (of course, it doesn’t follow that they’d support private investigators hacking phones, bribing police officers, etc!)

Support for a formal authority to regulate the press rather than the PCC is little changed from last week - 27% support the PCC remaining, 59% support a new authority being established.