Post conference polling
So far we've had three polls conducted since the end of conference speech - YouGov in Friday's Times, Opinium in today's Observer and ICM in the Sun on Sunday. The first two included voting intention figures.
The YouGov/Times poll was conducted on Wednesday and Thursday after Theresa May's conference speech. Topline figures there were CON 40%(+1), LAB 42%(-1), LDEM 7%(nc) and changes are from immediately before the Labour conference. Tabs are here.
The Opinium poll for the Observer was conducted between Wednesday and Friday (so once again, after Theresa May's speech) and had topline figures of CON 40%(-2), LAB 42%(+2), LDEM 5%(-1). Changes are from just before the Labour party conference began. Tabs are here.
The two polls show identical two point leads for the Labour party, suggesting that Theresa May's disastrous leader's speech hasn't radically changed levels of party support (the changes since the previous polls are in opposite directions, but neither are statistically significant, so I expect we're just seeing noise there). Perceptions of the Prime Minister herself may be a different matter, though the public do still seem to be divided on her future.
Opinium did pick up a fall in Theresa May's own ratings, with her net approval down to minus 16 compared to minus 11 before the conference season. Jeremy Corbyn's figures were up, from minus 10 before conference to minus 5 now. Theresa May had a three point lead over Jeremy Corbyn on preferred Prime Minister.
YouGov asked about the future of Theresa May as Tory leader and found the public split down the middle - 39% think she should stay, 38% think she should go. As ever, answers like this fall out along very partisan lines - 68% of Tory voters think she should stay, 55% of Labour voters think she should go. Her ratings are mediocre across the board though, her lead over Jeremy Corbyn as best PM has shrunk to only three poonts (36% to 33% - 32% of people said don't know, suggesting a fairly large chunk of people aren't enthused by either of them.) 59% of people now think she is doing badly as PM, 31% still think she is doing well.
A third poll by ICM for the Sun on Sunday doesn't appear to have voting intention figures (or at least, I haven't seen them yet), but did ask what people thought Theresa May should do now. 29% wanted her to just continue as she is, 32% wanted her to confront her party opponents (18% by having a big reshuffle, 14% by making a "back me or sack me" demand), 13% want her to go immediately, 13% want her to name a future date when she will go.
There was also a BMG poll in the Independent today, but the fieldwork was conducted prior to the Conservative conference. Figures in the newspaper were CON 37%(-2), LAB 42%(+4).
