August has got off to a rosy start for any poll-watchers in the Tory and Labour parties (i.e. almost everyone). The monthly averages show both mainstream parties profiting at the…

Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats all ended July with their monthly poll averages up on June. Only Ukip showed a decline – its first since March: Labour’s average…

For all the bad press MPs receive routinely about their long summer recess from the House of Commons, recent history suggests it barely affects their parties’ respective rating in the…

The Ukip slide that was evident in the polls at the start of July has become more marked. Here’s how the party averages are looking halfway through the month:

This month’s polls are starting to show a few intriguing trends. The averages of all four parties are on the move. Labour’s rise, first evident last month, is continuing. But…

Labour ended June with its monthly poll average on the rise for the first time since February. The party’s share had declined four months in a row, from 38.4% in…

Survation has published the results of a poll it carried out on behalf of the RMT union in four “commuter” constituencies on the outskirts of London. None of the four…

We’re now halfway through June, and Labour’s poll figures seem to suggest that the slight revival in evidence at the start of the month has been sustained:

A few interesting developments are emerging in this month’s opinion poll averages. Granted, we’re only a third of the way through June. But a run of larger-than-usual poll leads for…

Here’s how the parties’ poll averages for May compare with those for the previous four months: Labour finished May on 34.9%, down 1.7 percentage points on its average for April….