Yesterday's YouGov poll

Just catching up on YouGov's latest poll for the Times yesterday. Topline voting intention figures were CON 39%(-1), LAB 42%(nc), LDEM 8%(+1), so didn't show any meaningful change. The two findings that got rather more attention were on best PM and Brexit.

On who would make best Prime Minister Theresa May has now lost her lead over Jeremy Corbyn, with both of them now equal on 33%. 35% of people said they weren't sure, meaning that actually came top - the first time I recall seeing don't know/not sure ahead on the question. The clear implication is that a very significant chunk of the public aren't enamoured of either of the main party leaders.

Also notable was YouGov's regular tracker on whether people think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the European Union. 42% of people now think that Brexit was the right decision, 47% think it was the wrong decision. The five point lead for "wrong" is the highest that YouGov have shown in this question since they started tracking it after the referendum. All the usual caveats apply - all polls have a margin of error, and it's wrong to get too excited over small movements in a poll that may be no more than normal random variation. The important thing to do is the watch the trend, and while the country is still quite evenly divided over the merits of Brexit as I wrote last month, the regular trackers do appear to have started to show some small movement towards regret.

Full tabs for the YouGov poll are here.