YouGov Daily figures - 41/28/18

YouGov's daily polling figures are CON 41%(+1), LAB 28(+1), LDEM 18%(-2). No massive change there, and no sign of a Conservative boost yet, their lead remains at 13 points. Tomorrow will have the first reaction to pensions and George Osborne's speech.

In other questions today, Yougov did a similar comparison between attitudes towards Cameron and the Conservative party as Populus did yesterday, and with similar results. In terms of being "in touch", Cameron's net score was 10 points above that of the Conservative party (-5 compared to -15), in terms of being trustworthy his net score was 17 points better than his party's (plus 3 compared to minus 14).

With yesterday's conference focus on unemployment, YouGoc asked about the best party on the economy and on unemployment, traditionally an issue where Labour are strong. The Conservatives led on both (by 6 points on the economy, 7 on unemployment... so actually higher on unemployment, though the difference isn't significant).

Finally YouGov asked if people supported or opposed the Conservative plan to retest those on disability benefit and move 500,000 onto jobseekers allowance. 70% approved, 24% disapproved.

(And as an aside, the Conservative conference open thread below seems to have gone wild - please try to keep partisan discussion about how evil the Conservatives are/how Gordon Brown eats babies over in that thread! The normal comments policy about posting in the spirit of non-partisanship applies here)

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