Populus/Times - CON 35, LAB 41, LDEM 11

The Times has a new Populus poll tonight - topline figures are CON 35%(-1), LAB 41%(+2), LDEM 11%(nc). Others are presumably on 13% - the Times report says UKIP are on 5%, the Greens on 4%. There is a slight move towards Labour since last month, but well within the normal margin of error. The changes since last month are not really significant, and the six point Labour lead is pretty much in line with YouGov's daily polling.

Populus also asked about the situation in Libya. 49% said Britain should be prepared to use military force to prevent foreign regimes launching attacks against people campaigning for fredom, 45% disagreed. They also found 68% of people in fabour of helping refugees from Libya, compared to 28% against.

These are quite sharp differences from the YouGov poll at the weekend, which found large majorities opposed to British troops intervening in Libya and opposed to Britain accepting refugees from Libya. I expect it's a case of measuring similar but different things. YouGov asked about British troops being used to removed Gaddafi (i.e. regime change), Populus seem to have asked about British troops being used to protect civilian protesters against attacks (i.e. more akin to peacekeeping). On refugees Populus seems to have asked about "helping" them, YouGov asked about allowing them to come to Britain - in both cases they are addressing superficially similar, but very different questions.

Still to come to tonight is the regular YouGov poll at 10pm.

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