Summer polls
It seemed briefly that we would get a new poll this morning, but disappointingly it was just the Independent calculating a poll of polls for last month, and there's already one of those in the top-right of the screen!
Politics has, of course, stopped for the summer (unless you are deputy leader of the Labour party, in which case now is your hour :) ). We should get most of the normal regular polls this month, but I wouldn't expect many beyond that. The exception might be Populus, who have sometimes skipped August in the past.
As with polls conducted over bank holiday weekends, polls carried out in the summer holidays are potentially a bit shaky anyway, since people being on holiday may skew samples. In theory pollsters can correct for this (a standard demographic question asked is how many foreign holidays people take each year), and in practice the figures in August polls don't actually look out of line, but I'm always a bit wary.
In the meantime, later on in the month I'm I hoping to do some nice round ups of the last year, and what lies ahead in the final parliamentary session before the general election.
