Populus/Times - CON 33, LAB 41, LDEM 10
With ICM's poll earlier today showing a boost for the Conservatives and most other polls showing Labour increasing their lead since the locals, Populus's monthly poll for the Times is somewhere inbetween, showing no significant change at all since the local elections. Topline figures are CON 33%(nc), LAB 41%(-1), LDEM 10%(-1) Others 16%.
UPDATE: The rest of Populus's poll asked about Britain's EU membership, economic policy and the perceptions of the party leaders. On the EU 21% said they were positive about British EU membership compared to 31% who were negative. On economic policy, in what appears to be a forced choice question 49% said that the government should stick to its current policy of prioritising dealing with the deficit by 2017, 51% thought it should slow the pace of cuts.
On the party leaders, Populus repeated an exercise they did a year ago, giving people a list of words and asking which they most associated with each of the party leaders. A year ago Cameron scored best on being determined amd arrogant, Miliband and Clegg both weak and out of his depth. We'll have to wait for the details of the poll to see the full changes here, but according to the Times' write up more people see Cameron as out of touch than a year ago, but he continues to be seem as standing up for Britain. Miliband's top ratings continue to be weak and out of his depth.
Meanwhile, the daily YouGov poll in the Sun has topline figures of CON 32%, LAB 44%, LDEM 7% and Others 16% (with UKIP in third place on 8%) - very typical of YouGov's polls since the local elections.