YouGov/Sun - CON 33, LAB 36, LD 9, UKIP 13
This morning's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 33%, LAB 36%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 13%. Full tabs are here.
YouGov also asked specifically about the reshuffle for the Times. Usually reshuffles are essentially a lot of people the public have never heard of being replaced by a group of other people the public have never heard of. This reshuffle was at least unusual in that it involves some ministers - like Michael Gove and William Hague - who the majority of respondents will actually recognise and have an opinion about. YouGov found that the majority of people thought that Hague had done a good job as Foreign Secretary... and that Gove had done a bad one as Education Secretary. 63% of people, including a majority of Conservative voters, thought it was right to remove him from the Education role.
Asked about how well represented women are at the top of the Conservative party, 36% now say they are very or fairly well represented. That's up from 29% at the start of the week, but is still well below the 48% who think women are well represented in the Labour party. Will it make any immediate difference? Probably not - in the months and years to come being less male-dominated will probably improve the Conservative party's image a bit, but it's certainly no magic bullet. You can see at the top of this post that today's voting intention figures are wholly in line with those from before the reshuffle.