YouGov/Sunday Times - CON 31, LAB 42, LDEM 10, UKIP 11

The weekly YouGov poll for the Sunday Times is now up here. Topline figures are CON 31%, LAB 42%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 11%, so pretty much normal. The fieldwork of the poll straddled Thursday and Friday so was partially after the Eastleigh result, but I wouldn't necessarily expect any significant impact until next week's polling.

On the other trackers there is a drop in approval ratings for both David Cameron and Ed Miliband. Cameron's approval rating is at minus 23, the first time he has dropped below minus 20 this year. Ed Miliband's rating is at minus 31, the first time he has dropped below minus 30 since last August.

Economic figures remain extremely bad. On the government's policy 31% support the government's basic policy of prioritising the reduction of the deficit, 40% prefer what is essentially the Labour party's alternative message of prioritising growth in the economy. Looking more specifically at the cuts, 49% think that the government are cutting too much and should reduce or slow the cuts, 35% think they should either speed them up (15%) or that the current balance is about right (20%).

33% of people say they have confidence in Cameron and the coalition to get the country out of the current economic mess, 61% do not. Just 20% of people say they would like to keep George Osborne as Chancellor (very low, but actually marginally up from when YouGov asked the same question last September!). A majority (53%) would like to see him replaced. Amongst Conservative voters a narrow majority (53%) want Osborne to remain.

There were also some questions on Clegg and the Rennard affair. It remains to be seen whether Eastleigh has moved the political narrative on from Rennard - for the last two days it looked as if the story had died a death, but this morning's Marr show is full of it again. Anyway, for what its worth only 14% of people think that Nick Clegg has been open and honest and only 7% think the Lib Dems have handled the issue well but, as we've seen in voting intention polls over the last week, it doesn't really seem to have had any impact on Lib Dem support. Asked about Nick Clegg's own future 39% think he should resign, 32% think he should remain... but those thinking he should go are mostly opponents of other political parties. 63% of Lib Dem supporters think Clegg should stay.