YouGov/Sunday Times - CON 34, LAB 38, LD 9, UKIP 12

This week YouGov/Sunday Times results are here. Topline voting intention figures are CON 34%, LAB 38%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 12%.

Politically the most interesting questions were about Harriet Harman and the ongoing NCCL/PIE/Daily Mail row, essentially measuring its lack of impact. Only 34% of people say they have been following the story very (6%) or fairly (28%) closely. 42% of people haven't followed it at all or are completely unaware of it. This is reflected in the other questions which all produced large levels of "don't knows" - it appears to be a story that hasn't really caught the public's attention or at least, the public don't know what to think about vague allegations from long ago.

Public opinion towards Harriet Harman is very much divided - 26% say PIE probably did have influence over NCCL, 33% that it probably didn't, 41% say they don't know. 34% agree with Harman that is it is just a politically motivated smear, 35% that it is legitimate investigation. 35% think that Jack Dromey probably did active condemn PIE, 20% think he probably did not, 45% don't know

Overall 34% think that Harriet Harman and Jack Dromey do have cause to apologise, 32% think that it’s a storm in a teacup and they do not. There's a consistent party skew to the answers throughout - most Labour voters think it's a smear and take the side of Harman and Dromey, many Tory supporters think they have something to apologise for.

The broad thrust of the results is that the story hasn't really cut through to the public - rather than some great swathe of public outrage, people who disliked Labour to begin with seem to think they've done something wrong, people who support Labour to begin with seem to think it's a smear, most people don't seem to care one way or the other.