YouGov - No speech bounce for Ed - UPDATED
YouGov's daily poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 41%, LAB 39%, LDEM 12%. Rather to my surprise there is no meaningful increase in Labour's support from Ed Miliband's first conference speech as leader. Once again, more stuff to come either later tonight or tomorrow morning.
UPDATE: I meant to update this last night or today but didn't get the opportunity. The rest of the YouGov/Sun poll following Ed Miliband's speech are here, and paint a rather mixed picture.
On one hand, the direct questions about the speech were all pretty positive - 36% think EM will change the party for the better, 35% that he won’t change it, 12% that he’ll make it worse, 53% believe that he is serious about reducing the deficit, 23% think he isn’t. 71% think he was right to criticise the last government and 56% that he was right to say the war in Iraq was wrong. The percentage thinking he will do a good job has also risen to 50%, from 43% before the speech.
But on the downside, he hasn’t managed to dispel the negatives he was clearly seeking to address in his speech – 32% think the unions will have too much influence (compared to 33% before the speech) and 45% think his election means the party has moved to the left (compared to 42% before the speech) - plus of course, the speech produced no obvious boost in voting intention.
Tonight we have not only the normal YouGov/Sun poll, but also an ICM poll for the Guardian.