YouGov/Sun - CON 32, LAB 41, LD 9, UKIP 9

This morning's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 32%, LAB 41%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 9%. Yesterday had a thirteen point lead, but today's is very much back into the normal range. There is no sign of any bounce for the Liberal Democrats from their conference, but I wouldn't necessarily expect one yet - any impact normally peaks after the leader's speech. Interestingly enough where there is some whiff of a conference boost is UKIP, who YouGov have shown at 9% for two days in a row. Its not significantly above the seven to eight that YouGov normally record for UKIP so could easily be normal sample variation, but YouGov haven't shown them that high for a good six weeks.

Tomorrow and Sunday's polls will show any impact from the Lib Dem conference, although as always in conference season the peaks of troughs of each party as their conferences come and go isn't really that important - it is whether things are any different once these short term publicity effects fade.

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