Today's Sun poll

I'm going to do a full post on the Sun poll later on, but firstly a quick explanation of what went on. The two YouGov polls published last week were actually subsets of this big 10,000 poll, released because of the Labour leadership ructions. The 4000 or so on Thursday were the earliest respondents to the poll before the Hoon-Hewitt story broke, the 2800 or so on Friday were the latest respondents to the poll, done after the story had broken and YouGov had added some extra questions about the Labour leadership.

The Sun's poll today uses the same up to date voting intention figures they published on Friday (so those aren't new), but all their other data is based on the full 10,000 sample.

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