YouGov/Sun - 36/43/10

Tonight's YouGov/Sun voting intention figures are CON 36%, LAB 43%, LDEM 10%, Others 11%. It's the second time we've seen Labour get a seven point lead, though it well within the margin of error of the five point Labour lead that seems to have become the underlying position in YouGov's daily poll.

Also worth looking at are some questions about the NHS from yesterday's YouGov poll. On the back of David Cameron's statement about not wanting the NHS to be second best, we asked about the public's perception of how the NHS compared to other the health services of other European countries - 29% thought the NHS was better than most other European countries, 23% that it was worse and 32% about the same.

Asked about whether they supported or opposed the government's plans to restructure the NHS, people were pretty evenly split - 34% supported the policy, 37% opposed it. Unsurprisingly given that I doubt many of us who don't work in the NHS have the faintest clue exactly how NHS trusts, GP consortiums or commissioning of health services in general work, 30% said they didn't know.

More generally, asked how much they trusted the coalition government to deliver high quality NHS services only 36% said a lot or a little. 57% said not a lot or not at all.

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