YouGov/Sun - CON 36%, LAB 41%, LDEM 11%

Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 36%, LAB 41%, LDEM 11%. A five point Labour lead is larger than we’ve seen of late from YouGov (the last time they showed a lead that large was early February which, in hindsight, looked like a blip). Normal caveats apply: sure, it could be a sign of Labour's lead growing beyond the point or two that YouGov have been averaging at of late, alternatively it could just be normal sample error.

There was also a Harris poll in the Metro this morning with some extremely odd figures. In the newspaper they are quoted as CON 32%, LAB 23%, LDEM 12%. There is no indication if the balance is others, don't knows, won't votes or whatever. I think I'll come back to this one when the tables appear on Harris's website.

UPDATE: The tabs for the Harris poll are here. The rather bonkers voting intention figures were, in fact, not really voting intention figures at all, but answers to a question on what party people were "most inclined to support" (the low percentages were, as many people guessed, because it included 19% who said "No party").

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