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This morning's YouGov poll for the Sun had topline figures of CON 33%, LAB 38%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 11%. The five point lead follows two six point leads on Wednesday and Thursday, so we're certainly looking at the lower end of YouGov's recent spread of results. Full tabs are here.

There is also a new Populus poll following on from their return to regular voting intention polls at the start of the week - going forward they are expecting to publish at least one poll a week, sometimes more. Their latest figures are CON 31%(nc), LAB 39%(+1), LDEM 12%(-1), UKIP 10%(nc). Changes are from the start of the week and obviously don't show any movement beyond normal margin of error. Full tabs are here

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