Peter Hoskin

A more encouraging poll result for the Tories

Opinion polls are varying so much at the moment that it’s probably futile to read too much into any one set of figures.  After the MORI poll last week, though, today’s ICM poll for the Sunday Mirror will please quite a few Tories, and fits back into what UK Polling Report’s Anthony Wells calls the “broad sweep” of recent polls.  Here are the headline numbers:

Conservatives — 42 percent (down 1 from last month)
Labour — 31 percent (up 1)
Lib Dem — 19 percent (up 1)

As I wrote last week, it will be interesting to see how the poll numbers settle in the aftermath of the PBR.

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