Are the Conservatives beginning to pull ahead of Labour? Two polls out this week suggest this might be the case. Today’s YouGov/The Sun poll puts the Tories on 36 per cent and Labour on 34 per cent — a two point lead for David Cameron’s party and its highest poll rating since March 2012. Monday’s Ashcroft poll had a similar result, putting the Conservatives on a three point lead ahead of Labour on 34 per cent. Both of these are within the margin of error.
While Ukip remain steady on 14 per cent in both polls and the Greens are hovering on high single digits, the most shocking thing to report from the YouGov poll is that the Liberal Democrats are down to just five per cent — their lowest poll rating in 25 years. Considering the party polled 22 per cent at the last election, this represents an almighty fall for Nick Clegg’s party.
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