New YouGov and Opinium polls

Tonight's YouGov poll has topline figures of CON 40%, LAB 39%, LDEM 9% - a Tory lead but still in line with the recent average of a small Labour lead of a point or so.

Opinium have also released new figures (though the actual fieldwork was conducted last week). Their topline figures with changes from early February are CON 35%(-1), LAB 39%(+3), LDEM 10%, Others 19% (the very high others score is typical for the company, for reasons which are not clear).

We are also still awaiting Ipsos MORI's monthly poll for Reuters which I thought would have turned up by now.

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