New YouGov/Sunday Times poll
YouGov have a new poll in the Sunday Times, the topline figures with changes from their last poll are CON 40%(+3), LAB 24%(+2), LDEM 18%(-1). It was conducted on Thursday and Friday.
Both Labour and the Conservatives are up slightly - in YouGov's polls you need to go back a month or so to get the Conservatives up at 40 or Labour into the mid-twenties. Perhaps this suggests the beginnings of a decline in the "other vote" now the European elections have passed, though it is just the one poll. Even it is, it's only a small decline: others remain up at 18%, with UKIP taking the largest share with 8% (the Greens are on 4% and the BNP on 3%).
As with Populus's poll in the week, there is an increase in economic optimism. The net percentage of people who think the economy is doing badly is minus 80 - an atrocious figure in itself, but up from minus 86 a month ago and minus 91 back in February.
On other questions 60% of people said that Brown should step down prior to the election, and 73% wanted an election this year (49% now, and 24% in the autumn). Interestingly, while David Cameron's ratings remain very high with a net popularity rating of plus 25, there was less enthusiasm for the team behind him: only 36% thought he had "the right team" to tackle Britain's problems, with 50% disagreeing.
UPDATE: There's also a Scottish YouGov poll in the Scottish edition of the paper, though I have only seen partial figures: the SNP are on 31% in Westminster voting intentions, the Conservatives on 17%. No doubt someone with access to the Scottish paper will leave the results in the comments section.
