YouGov's February Poll
YouGov's monthly poll for the Telegraph has topline figures, with changes from the previous YouGov poll, of CON 41%(-3), LAB 31%(-1), LDEM 15%(+1).
While the poll still shows them at 40% and with a double point lead, the poll suggests a slight fall in Tory support. It'll be interesting to see if that is reflected in other polls, although sympathy for David Cameron's loss of his son Ivan may well lead to some temporary blips in figures anyway (a lot of the fieldwork for this poll would have been conducted before people had seen the news).
It looks as though "others" are also up in the poll. This follows a similar pattern to some of the other recent polls. You may remember that Populus's last poll showed the BNP moving up. Given that support for minor parties fluctuates rather a lot in polls, I warned that the Populus poll alone didn't mean much, but it's worth keeping an eye on in case a pattern does emerge.
Other questions in the poll showed Gordon Brown's approval rating continuing to fall, the Conservative lead on handling the present economic crisis increasing, and that 48% of people thought Ken Clarke would make a better business secretary than Peter Mandelson, with only 17% prefering Mandelson.
The Telegraph headlines on a finding that immigration was supposedly the top issue people want dealing with - the actual question asked isn't stated in the report, but I'd be incredibly surprised if immigration was seen as a more important issue than the economy. I suspect it was the most important issue out of a list that didn't include sorting out the economic crisis...
