YouGov - 41/40/10

The first YouGov/Sun poll since the spending review has topline figures of CON 41%, LAB 40%, LDEM 10%. It's the smallest Conservative lead for a week or so, but there's no massive change from the pre-CSR polls - no collapse or increase in Tory support - nothing, in fact, that couldn't be normal variation within the margin of error. What is notable is the Liberal Democrat score: 10% is the lowest YouGov have ever recorded them, the last time any pollster had them that low was 1997.

Naturally YouGov asked a large number of questions on the spending review itself, which I'll post about later once the Sun release them.

I don't know if there are other polls tonight - Channel 4 News said a poll tonight would have the Lib Dems at a 20 year low. Clearly this shouldn't apply to this poll, YouGov haven't been around for 20 years, and it's only 13 years since another pollster had them on 10%. That said, it could just have been human error.

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