More from the YouGov/Sunday Times poll
I didn't get chance to do a post on the YouGov/Sunday Times poll yesterday - the full tables are here. People elsewhere have already written about it, so I'm just going to pick out some of the interesting bits. On the regular trackers, David Cameron's approval ratings have perked up a bit since last week's low (a net of minus 11, up from minus 16 and back to a "pre-hackgate" sort of picture). Ed Miliband has so far retained most of his hackgate boost - his approval rating stands at minus 17, down only slightly from minus 15 last week.
On other questions, YouGov asked if people thought Cameron, Clegg and Miliband would still be in place come the next election. Two thirds of people think David Cameron will (including 90% of Conservative voters - the vast majority of people who think he won't be are Labour supporters). Just under half of respondents (47%) think Ed Miliband will still be Labour leader by the next election - amongst Labour's own supporters two-thirds think he will still be leader, 20% do not. For Nick Clegg, only 35% think he will still be Lib Dem leader by the time of the next election, with 46% thinking he will not.
There were also a series of economic questions, focusing upon options for encouraging growth. 68% of people thought that cutting VAT would help the economy grow, followed by cutting business taxes (53%), and cutting regulation (48%). Only 21% thought that scrapping the 50p rate of income tax would help boost growth. The pattern of which of these measures people would support was much the same (though, unsurprisingly, there were some people who clearly supported tax cuts despite not thinking they would help growth!).
Finally, for those interested in the Boris v George fight to succeed David Cameron that some commentators seem to get excited about sometimes, YouGov asked if people thought it was likely Boris would ever be Prime Minister - only 14% of people did. YouGov asked the same question about George Osborne back in March, with almost identical results: only 13% thought that George would ever be PM.
