YouGov/Times - CON 42%, LAB 42%, LD 6%

YouGov's regular voting intention figures this week are CON 42%(+1), LAB 42%(nc), LDEM 6%(-1). Fieldwork was Sunday to Monday and changes are from mid-January, showing the stable levels of support that have become the norm in recent months.

One thing that is notable in the tracker questions is the question on whether Brexit was the right or wrong decision: 40% said right, 46% said wrong. Six points is the largest lead for "wrong" that YouGov have shown in this tracker, which has provoked some comment. In YouGov's last poll there was a blip in the opposite direction and the results put "right" ahead for the first time in months. That didn't mean anything in hindsight, so I'd urge caution on this one too. All polls have a margin of error, so you get extremes one way or the other - the thing to pay attention to the trend (which does now tend to show slightly more people think it's the wrong decision than the right one) rather than get wrongly excited about the outliers.

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