YouGov/Times - CON 43, LAB 25, LD 11, UKIP 10
YouGov's regular voting intention poll for the Times has topline figures of CON 43%, LAB 25%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 10%. The Conservative lead remains strong and third place continues to bounce back and forth between the Lib Dems and UKIP (I expect they are actually about even and we're just seeing normal random sample variation).
On best Prime Minister May leads Jeremy Corbyn by 53% to 13%. This is May's highest figure since her honeymoon, Jeremy Corbyn's lowest ever and the 38 point gap is the biggest we've recorded so far. This is the first poll since the attack on Parliament and Prime Ministers sometimes do see a boost to their reputation if they are seen to have handled an emergency with confidence so it could be connected, or the timing could be pure co-incidence.
The reason for the huge gap is Corbyn's low support among Labour voters. Typically people answer these questions along partisan lines - Tory voters pick the Tory leader, Labour voters pick the Labour leader, the best PM lead ends up being similar to the voting intention lead. At the moment 94% of current Tory voters think that May would make the better Prime Minister, but only 46% of current Labour voters say Corbyn would (15% say May, 39% say "Not sure"). Among people who voted Labour at the last election Corbyn's position is even worse, only 27% say he would make the better Prime Minister, 29% say Theresa May. Full tabs are here.
Given today is Article 50 day, I've also written a much longer piece over on the YouGov website bringing together lots of the recent YouGov research on Brexit - you can find that here.
