New ICM and YouGov polls

Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 34%(-1) LAB 28% (+1) LDEM 29% (+1). No significant change from yesterday.

Rather to my surprise, there's also a new ICM poll in the Guardian. The topline figures there are CON 33%(-3), LAB 28%(-1), LDEM 28%(+1). Changes are from the ICM poll in the Sunday Telegraph - the fieldwork periods actually overlap, the Sunday Telegraph's fieldwork was all on Friday, this poll's fieldwork was Friday to Sunday. Others up at the expense of the Conservatives.

That's two of the polls that showed an increase for the Tories on Saturday reversing it on Monday. It looks like it was co-incidence they all showed Tories rises that day (or perhaps not - bank holiday polling can produce odd samples, and I wouldn't really want to conclude too much whatever it showed.)

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