YouGov/Sun - CON 32, LAB 44, LD 9, UKIP 10

This morning's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 32%, LAB 44%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 10%. I think we can now be pretty confident that the underlying Labour lead in YouGov's daily polling has ticked up to twelve points or so, mostly it seems from a drop in Conservative support and increase in UKIP support - Labour's own support remains pretty much unchanged.

The main driver of change here was presumably the positive publicity UKIP got from their strong performance in the recent by-elections, the Rotherham fostering row and the talk of a Conservative-UKIP row, an excellent week of news coverage for UKIP. Whether it will be sustained or will fade away again as the news agenda rolls on is a different matter.

(As a reminder, the vast majority of the fieldwork for this poll was completed before the Autumn statement. Tomorrow morning's poll will be the first one conducted after the statement, though personally I wouldn't expect any huge impact.)

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