YouGov show 20 point Tory lead

A new YouGov poll for the News of the World has topline voting intention questions of CON 46%(-1), LAB 26%(+1), LDEM 17%(+1). The poll was conducted between the 6th and 8th of August. I do tend to be slightly wary of August polls - most pollsters do weight samples by the number of foreign holidays respondents take to even out the bias of people being on holiday in August, but all the same. In this case though, we still have what amounts to a 'no change' survey. Thanks to Mike Smithson for ferretting the voting intention figures out of the News of the World, whose report concentrates on 46% of respondents wanting Brown to quit.

The SNP have also released details of a second YouGov poll, commissioned by themselves, which asked respondents in Scotland whether they thought Alex Salmond or Gordon Brown were doing a better job. 52% thought Salmond, compared to 12% for Brown. The SNP have no yet released the voting intention figures, though given they have a breakdown by voting intention I think YouGov will be obliged to show it in the published tables next week.

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