The recent run of opinion polls showing the Conservatives enjoying a small lead over Labour has understandably attracted a fair bit of comment. It’s rare for voting intentions to switch…

After a quiet couple of months, the polling averages for all main parties are on the move – and it’s Ukip alone that has reason to be cheerful. The party…

Lord Ashcroft’s latest poll of Liberal Democrat battleground constituencies suggests I may need to revise my classification of the six species of Lib Dem MPs. His findings point to the…

A poll by YouGov published last Sunday at the start of Labour’s party conference put the party on 36%. Today’s YouGov poll, published the Sunday after Labour’s party conference, puts…

Despite most eyes being on Scotland these past weeks, pollsters have kept trotting out their regular snapshots of voting intention at the general election. And their findings have confirmed that…

Away from the clamour of the referendum campaign, opinion polls on voting intention at the general election are continuing to be produced like clockwork. And so far this month they’ve…

Back in July, I made a forecast for what the YouGov opinion poll would be on the day the House of Commons returned from its summer recess. In seeking to…

Despite the month proving to be anything but a silly season when it came to news, all four parties have ended August with their polling averages pretty much unchanged. Labour…

Labour will take heart from Lord Ashcroft’s latest survey of marginal seats. This time he’s sampled opinion in what he calls the “wider battleground” – constituencies not right at the…

The slight swing back towards the two mainstream parties I noticed at the start of August is persisting. The trends suggest both Labour and the Tories are currently getting a…