More from YouGov's Libya polling

The tables for YouGov's polling on Libya are now up here and here. People broadly approve of David Cameron's handling of the Libya Crisis so far, with 44% thinking he had done a good job, 35% a poor job. This compares positively to impressions of President Obama's handling of the issue - only 29% thought he had handled it well, compared to 45% who think he has performed poorly.

Overwhelmingly British people perceive the Libyan people as not supporting Colonel Gaddafi (only 4% of people believe that the Libyan people support their leader), however they are less certain whether they see coalition forces as their allies - 37% think the Libyan people welcome the West's involvement, 39% think the coalition forces will be seen as enemies of the Libyan people.

There is comparatively little support for the principle of regime change - only 30% of people think that the coalition should be actively attempting to remove Colonel Gaddafi from power, with 56% thinking we should do only what is necessary to protect Libyan civilians.

That said, a majority of people think that it is actually only possible to protect civilians by removing Gaddafi! Only 16% think that it would be possible to come to a deal where Libyan civilians are protected while Gadaffi remains in power, 54% think it would only be possible to protect them by removing Gaddafi. Almost half (46%) of people think that the military coalition should attempt to target Gaddafi himself in air strikes if the opportunity arises, 30% of people disagree.

Many of these questions are copies of ones YouGov asked by in 2003 when the Iraq war broke out - there's a comparison between then and now by Peter Kellner here