YouGov/Sunday Times - CON 31, LAB 32, LD 7, UKIP 18

The weekly YouGov/Sunday Times poll today has topline figures of CON 31%, LAB 32%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 18%, GRN 6%, continuing YouGov's recent trend of showing a wafer thin Labour lead (tabs are here.)

For the first time in YouGov's polling Ed Miliband's net ratings on if he is doing a good or bad job have sunk below Nick Clegg's. 18% now think Ed Miliband is doing well as Labour leader, 73% badly - a net figure of minus 55. Nick Clegg's figures are 18% well, 72% badly, a net figure of minus 54.

In a referendum on EU membership 37% of people say they would vote to stay in, 43% would vote to leave. For most of this year YouGov have been showing a small lead for staying in, so this is slightly unusual, especially since another YouGov poll mid-week also showed more people wanting to leave. It could possibly be the impact of the £1.7bn story in the news. On that subject, 11% of people think David Cameron should pay the extra money, 24% say he should try to persuade the rest of the EU to drop the demand, but should ultimately pay up if he cannot. 52% think he should just refuse flat out to pay. However while people would like Cameron to take a stand, most don't actually expect it to work - 61% expect Britain to end up paying either the full £1.7bn (31%) or slightly less than it (30%). Only 22% expect Britain to get a substantial reduction (17%) or get away without paying (5%).