SNP down in Scottish YouGov poll

Scotland on Sunday has a new YouGov poll of Scottish voting intentions tomorrow that shows Labour opening up a large lead over the SNP in Westminster voting intentions. The topline figures are CON 20%, LAB 38%, LDEM 15%, SNP 21%. Note that while the Scottish editions of the Sun have for the past couple of weeks been running figures based upon the aggregated and weighted Scottish data from the Sun's daily YouGov polls, this was a dedicated full sized Scottish poll (though the smaller Scottish polls for the Scottish Sun have painted a very similar picture - Labour right up, with the SNP down close to the Conservatives).

Holyrood constituency figures are CON 16%, LAB 33%, LDEM 16%, SNP 28% - the article doesn't refer to any Holyrood regional voting intentions. For what I think is the first time since he became First Minister Alex Salmond's approval ratings have slipped into negative territory, with 36% thinking he is doing a good job and 38% a bad job.

There is as yet no sign of today's YouGov/Sunday Times poll.

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