YouGov/Sunday Times - CON 32, LAB 38, LD 10, UKIP 13

Anthony Wells

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This week's YouGov poll for the Sunday Times is online here. Topline voting intention figures are CON 32%, LAB 38%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 13%, echoing the six point Labour lead that YouGov's daily polls seem to be averaging around.

Given we are now getting into silly season the rest of the poll was rather a mixed bag of issues. On fracking people back the extraction of shale gas by 41% to 33%, with 26% saying they don't know. 68% of people think shale gas would be very or fairly good for the economy, outweighing the 47% who think it would be very or fairly damaging to the environment and the 36% who think it would not be safe. However people would be less favourable about fracking taking place in their own local area - 43% think this would be a bad thing, only 25% a good thing.

65% of respondents said that social media sites should take action to prevent abusive or offensive comments in general, with 20% saying that people should just block users if they find them offensive. Asked more specifically about comments that threaten violence or rape, 87% of people think that social media websites should take action to prevent them. 85% of people support the criminal prosecution of people who make comments threatening violence or rape on social media sites.

The only hard politics in there really was on the House of Lords - only 19% of people support the current appointed House of Lords. 47% would prefer a chamber that was partially or wholly elected, 16% would like to see it abolished entirely. Only 9% think it is acceptable for parties to appoint people who have donated money as members of the House of Lords and 60% would support a ban on donors being given peerages.

There was also a new Survation poll in yesterday's Mail on Sunday. Topline figures were CON 28%(nc), LAB 36%(nc), LDEM 11%(+2), UKIP 18%(-2). Little change there, though as with TNS earlier in the week it's worth noting that the downwards trend in UKIP support is now showing up more broadly (Survation had them peaking at 22% back in May, though some of the decline could be due to a weighting tweak) - there is still a difference between pollsters using different methods, but the trend is the same. Tabs are here.

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