More post spending review polls
No doubt we will have plenty of post-CSR polls tonight.
We have already had two brief ComRes polls for the Indy and the BBC Daily Politics at the end of the week. ComRes found 59% thought the cuts "were unfair because they hit the poorest people", but also (in the other poll) found a majority (52%) supporting the cuts with 39% opposed, a slightly more positive balance than the YouGov poll for the Sun. Neither had any voting intention figures.
The first Sunday poll to be published is by ICM for the News of the World. This has voting intention figures of CON 40%(+2), LAB 36%(+2), LDEM 16%(-2). Changes are from a fortnight ago. It's the lowest Lib Dem and highest Conservatives scores from ICM since June (though it would be a very good Lib Dem score from any other pollster!).
On questions about the spending review itself people think the cuts were more unfair than fair by a narrow margin (45% to 42%), and 48% think people on low incomes will suffer the most, compared to 20% who think middle income earners will suffer most and 5% that high earners will. 60% agreed with the decision to protect the NHS, international development and schools from cuts (though we've seen in many pre-CSR poll that the public actually have mixed views on this - protecting the NHS is supported, International Development isn't). On who would make the best Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne leads Alan Johnson by 38% to 28% - presumably there was a large body of don't knows.
I'll post again later when more polls appear, there is certainly the weekly YouGov poll for the Sunday Times to come, and it wouldn't surprise me if there were others.
UPDATE: The YouGov/Sunday Times voting intention figures are CON 41%, LAB 40%, LDEM 10% - the same as YouGov's immediate post-spending review poll for the Sun.
