New BPIX poll in the Mail on Sunday

There is also a new BPIX poll in the Mail on Sunday. The topline figures are CON 40%, LAB 25%, LDEM 22% so largely inline with the other pollsters, showing the Lib Dems up to the low twenties following their conference. Last month's BPIX had very odd figures that looked as if they hadn't been repercentaged to exclude don't knows, and without access to the tables it was impossible to work out what was going on, but these look more normal.

The poll also asked if people agreed with Vince Cable's "mansion tax", 57% of people said yes. Despite a generally negative verdict in the papers, as I said yesterday my guess is that only thing most of the public would have picked up from the Lib Dem conference was a reminder that they and Nick Clegg existed, and that they were going to put a new tax on people richer than them - something which polls almost always show as being popular.