New YouGov and ComRes polls

Two more new polls out tonight. ComRes have a telephone poll out for the Indy, their first phone poll since September. Topline figures with changes since September are CON 35%(-3), LAB 37%(+3), LDEM 16%(-2), actually very close to the Angus Reid poll earlier today and the first ComRes poll to put Labour ahead since the election-that-never-was.

Note that ComRes are now carrying out both online and telephone polls. Sampling and mode effects can make significant differences to poll results, so in drawing comparisons to previous polls I'll be treating ComRes phone and online polls seperately (at least until we've six months or so to see if there's a difference) - hence why the change figures I quote are different to those in the Indy.

Meanwhile, YouGov's daily poll has topline figures of CON 41%, LAB 39%, LDEM 11% - suggesting the 5 point Tory lead in the Sunday Times poll wasn't anything meaningful.

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