Sunday Polls

I'm about to head up to Birmingham, so won't necessarily be around much for the next few days (not least, when Lord Ashcroft releases his latest marginal poll at 2pm today I'll be on a train!), but here's a quick summary of today's other polls.

ComRes in the Independent on Sunday have topline figures of CON 29%(-3), LAB 35%(+1), LDEM 7%(-1), UKIP 19%(+1). Changes are from their previous online poll a month ago. Tabs are here.

Opinium for the Observer have toplines of CON 32%(+3), LAB 34%(-3), LDEM 7%(nc), UKIP 17%(-2). Changes are from a fortnight ago.

Finally the weekly YouGov poll for the Sunday Times has toplines of CON 31%, LAB 36%, LDEM 6%, UKIP 15%, GRN 6%. While some other pollsters have already shown the Greens in fourth place, this is the first time that YouGov have shown them catching the Liberal Democrats. Tabs are here.

There is no obvious impact in the polls from the Labour party conference - ComRes have their lead up, Opinium down, YouGov not far from their recent average. In YouGov's survey they asked if Labour's conference made people more or less positive about Ed Miliband - 13% said more positive, 15% more negative, 54% unchanged.

YouGov also had several questions on Iraq, showing majority support for British airstrikes against ISIS (58% support for attacks in Iraq, 53% for attacks in Syria) but continuing opposition to putting ground troops back into Iraq (26% approve, 53% disapprove). YouGov also asked about whether Britain should co-operate with Assad or Iran in fighting ISIS. People are evenly split over Assad - 36% think we should co-operate with the regime, 34% that we should not. With Iran people are far more supportive of co-operation - 54% of people think that we should co-operate with Iran, 18% are opposed.

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