Today’s YouGov poll for the Mirror tells a similar story to those released at the weekend – i.e. fairly unimpressive Labour gains, given the wall-to-wall coverage Brown’s enjoyed recently. But there’s a chapter to that story that I didn’t pick up on in my post of a couple of days ago – and that’s just how poor the numbers are for the Lib Dems.
They’re on 14 percent today, and were stuck on 16 percent in yesterday’s ComRes poll. It’s similar to how they’ve been polling for the last few months. But what makes the latest numbers stand out is that they come on the back of a couple of good weeks for the party – perhaps the best since Nick Clegg took charge. He’s beaten both Labour and the Tories to a “tax cuts for low income earners” message, and – rightly or wrongly – Vince Cable has been cast in his default role as the Man Who Knows What’s Going On. But voters, it seems, remain unmoved.
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