YouGov/Sunday Times - CON 34, LAB 39, LD 9, UKIP 12

The weekly YouGov poll for the Sunday Times is up here. Topline voting intentions are CON 34%, LAB 39%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 12% - a five point Labour lead, typical of the sort of leads we were seeing before that brief post-budget narrowing.

In addition to Westminster VI, YouGov also asked European voting intention again to see if there had been an impact from the Farage-Clegg debate. Last week we didn't really see any effect. This week with the higher profile BBC debate (and the more convincing win for Farage) it appears to be a different case.

Up until now YouGov's European polls have been showing Labour leading with the Conservatives and UKIP in a tight battle for second place. In today's poll Labour are just two points ahead of UKIP, and UKIP have opened up a five point lead over the Conservatives in third place: CON 23%(-1), LAB 30%(-2), LDEM 9%(-2), UKIP 28%(+5).

If you took only those certain to vote the position would be even better for UKIP, putting them in first place on 34% to Labour's 27% and the Conservatives in a distant third. Of course, that's quite a harsh turnout filter and people are not necessarily very good at predicting turnout this far out (especially when it's the same day as local elections) - the key point is that UKIP voters are significantly more likely to say they'll turnout to vote in the European elections than supporters of the other three parties, which will benefit them to some extent.

While the poll suggests UKIP have benefited from the debate in terms of European election voting intention, it hasn't moved attitudes to the EU at all (42% say they would vote to stay in, 37% to leave - almost unchanged from last week) and doesn't seem to have had much effect on Westminster voting intentions either.