New ComRes and YouGov polls
Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 34%, LAB 44%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 8%, so bang in line with the leads of ten points or so that YouGov have been showing lately.
Meanwhile ComRes have their monthly poll for the Independent, which has topline figures of CON 33%(-1), LAB 42%(nc), LDEM 13%(+2), Others 12%. Changes are from ComRes's last poll conducted by telephone a month ago, rather than their parallel online polls for the Independent on Sunday.
They also have one of my beloved "agree or disagree with this statement" question - in this case asking if people agreed or disagreed that "the Government is more to blame than the eurozone crisis for the lack of economic growth in Britain". 43% of people agreed and 42% disagreed. To practice what I preach in the post below on how to report polls, this should probably be read in the context of similar questions from YouGov and Populus in recent weeks.
In the Sunday Times this week YouGov asked what single factor was most to blame for Britain still being in recession. 33% said the Eurozone crisis or global factors, 23% said the deficit left by the last government, 19% said the present governments policies or cuts, 13% said the banks for not lending money. Populus last month tackled the subject a different way, asking people to rate five different items seperately in terms of how much they were to blame for the present economic situation, and then taking those who rated each one at 8/10 or more. 64% of people blamed the behaviour of the banks prior to the credit crunch, 57% the crisis in the Eurozone, 49% the last Labour government's borrowing, 47% banks not lending and 37% the current government's cuts.
Finally ComRes also had a poll on people's trust in various professions for ITV news. As usual in these polls doctors were top, trusted by 85% to tell the truth, they were followed by teachers (76%), judges (73%) and scientists (72%). At the bottom only 10% trusted bankers or politicians to tell the truth, 13% trusted journalists and 19% business leaders. And, before you ask, 27% of people trust pollsters to tell the truth, 41% do not!
