YouGov/Times - CON 39, LAB 37, LDEM 10, UKIP 5

August is normally a quiet time for polling - partly because the political agenda is often quite bare, partly because both pollsters themselves and the journalists who normally commission public polls will likely be taking their holidays (There's also a question to be asked about sampling when a fair chunk of the country will be on its holidays, though personally I suspect that doesn't actually make a difference once it's spread over a month). It means polling in late August was very light, with only the regular YouGov/Times poll, which was published on Friday and had topline figures of CON 39%(-1), LAB 37%(nc), LDEM 10%(+1), UKIP 5%(-1).

Parliament returns next week, and hopefully a busier political agenda will be equally reflected in some more interesting polling.