YouGov/Sun - CON 33, LAB 39, LD 11, UKIP 13
This morning's daily YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 33%, LAB 39%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 13% - full tabs are here. The six point Labour lead is down from the big post-conference leads last week, but a bit too "in the middle" to really be confident what is going on. As ever, it's common to have a lot of up and down in the polls in conference season, so don't get too excited - wait and see what they look like once they are all over and things have died down.
There were also the first reactions to the announcements the Tories made at the start of the conference, which broadly got thumbs up - 62% supported allowing married couples to transfer £1000 of their tax allowance when one of them stays at home or earns less than their allowance, 68% supported making the long term unemployed undertake full time community work or risk loosing their benefits, 50% support giving guarantees to banks to encourage them to offer 95% mortgages.
In all three cases, I doubt there will be any impact (help to buy is just changing the timing of something already announced, forcing the long term unemployed to take work of some sort was probably perceived as the sort of thing the Conservatives supported anyway, the transferrable tax allowance is worth a relatively small amount) - just getting high approval ratings in polls doesn't mean it will have any sort of effect. If the Conservatives do get any conference boost, the most likely time will be after David Cameron's own speech, the part of party conferences that tends to get the most coverage and publicity.