YouGov/Sun - CON 37, LAB 41, LDEM 11

YouGov's first daily poll since the budget has topline figures of CON 37%, LAB 41%, LDEM 11%, Others 11%. The day-on-day changes since yesterday are not significant, but it is the smallest Labour lead since February. Government approval has also risen - today's figure is minus 19, the highest since January (33% approve and 52% disapprove).

This suggests there may be a slight boost from the budget, but I wouldn't get to excited. As we saw in the previous post, the previous budget in June gave the government a boost of a couple of points, and it lasted all of a week.

Naturally there were some more questions on the details of the budget which will be up in the Sun later or on the YouGov website tomorrow.

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