Much confusion on the digital grapevine, last night, about YouGov’s latest daily tracker poll. Turns out, it doesn’t have the Tories leading by twelve – but, rather, the positions are unchanged from the poll in the Sunday Times. So that’s the Tories on 39 percent, Labour on 33, and the Lib Dems on 17. A six point gap between the two main parties.
The poll was conducted between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning – so, after the bullying story broke, but, perhaps, too soon for it to have filtered through to the public consciousness. Even so, Labour will be encouraged by what they see. A below-headline question has more people rating Brown as “passionate” than a “bully” (by 28 percent to 24). And the six-point gap is more evidence that we’re actually in hung parliament territory, even if that does change soon.
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