Round up of polling from the last few days

Just catching up on a couple of polls over the last few days.

Friday's two Westminster voting intention polls from YouGov and Populus were YouGov/Sun - CON 33%, LAB 36%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 14% (tabs) and Populus - CON 34%, LAB 35%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 14% (tabs).

There was also a YouGov/Channel 4 Scottish poll in the week, showing very little change from the previous YouGov referendum poll in March. YES is on 37%(nc), NO is on 51%(-1) (tabs. Excluding don't knows this works out at YES 42%, NO 58% - exactly the same as a month ago. This, incidentally, produced some superbly inept reporting from the Daily Mail, well deserving of my much sought after "Crap Media Reporting of Polls" award: Campaign against independence soars to 16 point lead. Apparently there has been a "surge" in support for the Union following "growing anger over Putin praise". That'll be a surge from 58% to 58% then.

There is also a new YouGov poll of European voting intentions, conducted for the Green party. Topline figures there are CON 22%, LAB 30%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 27%, GRN 8% (tabs)

Finally there was a Survation poll of London (tabs) which had toplines for the European election in London of CON 21%, LAB 39%, LDEM 13%, UKIP 20%, GRN 7% and for the London local elections of CON 26%, LAB 42%, LDEM 14%, UKIP 11%.

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