More polling on Ed Miliband
The rest of YouGov's post-Miliband poll is in the Sun here, and should be up on the YouGov website shortly. On the whole it's pretty positive for Miliband - albeit, in a "reserving judgement" sort of way.
43% think Miliband will do well as leader, compared to only 23% badly, 34% don't know yet. 33% think trade unions will have too much influence over Labour under Ed Miliband, 29% disagree, and 38% don't know yet. On YouGov's regular tracker of leaders' qualities Ed Miliband scores best on being in touch with ordinary people (23%) and sticking to what he believes in (17%), but unsurprisingly 44% don't yet know enough about him to answer. On the whole, he is still an unknown quantity for the public.
Perhaps the most interesting question on there is whether people think the election of Miliband moved the party to the left. 42% think it has - this includes 35% of Labour supporters, but they overwhelmingly see this is a good thing. YouGov also asked if the description of "Red Ed" was justified - only 19% thought it was, 31% did not (and again, 51% didn't know).
Meanwhile the Times front page was dominated by some Conservative party polling from the start of the September. Basically, Populus showed respondents two video clips of David and Ed Miliband and asked people to rate them on various attributes, with the conclusion that David Miliband came out far better than Ed... confirming, albeit in far more detail, previous polls that showed David was more attractive to the wider public than Ed. I suspect "leaked" in the paper may translate as "deliberately released on the day after Ed Miliband became leader to undermine him now it's too late for Labour to pick the good one".
UPDATE: Rubbish reporting of polls times - the New Statesman dismisses the Conservative party's Populus poll because "Without more information about when precisely the poll was conducted, who the respondents were (party affiliation and so on), and whether responses were based purely on campaign videos, it is impossible to consider this a serious blow to Ed Miliband". Sound words indeed that I would normally agree with... except 10 seconds research on Populus's website would tell you it was a nationally representative poll conducted between the 3rd and 5th September, in fact the dates are even in the Times article (it doesn't tell you whether any other stimulus was used beside campaign videos, but Populus would be obliged under BPC rules to tell any journalist who asked).
At least make an effort, dammit.
