The opinion polls are making dire reading for Labour and the Tories are soaring ahead, apart from a rogue poll (ComRes for the Independent) suggesting Con Westminster support has gone down by 15 points in a month. In the Euro elections UKIP is strong, on around 15 – 20% of the likely votes, with the

Plaid Cymru has today released the data of the first All Wales opinion poll since prior to the Welsh Assembly election in 2007. The opinion poll was conducted by Beaufort Research and interviewed 1003 people in the period between the 12th and 21st of September. Questions were asked in order to measure voting intensions in both the Welsh Assembly and Westminster elections. ... full story

Tories seek to stem growing support in opinion polls for Nick Clegg, with party leader David Cameron warning that strong backing for the Liberal Democrats at next month's general election would lead to a hung parliament

Looking over at the Times today I have seen the first opinion poll information for the EU elections has been published, the Times analysis is here. The talking points are that Gordon Browns Labour Party are heading for third place in both the EU and local elections, dropping 9% to the Conservatives. Where The Lib Dems are holding firm on 27%, Labours drop will see them fall into third. UKIP still ...

Tories seek to stem growing support in opinion polls for Nick Clegg, with party leader David Cameron warning that strong backing for the Liberal Democrats at next month's general election would lead to a hung parliament

The first all-Wales opinion poll since last year’s Assembly elections suggests that support for Labour and Plaid Cymru since forming the One Wales coalition has risen, while support for the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats has gone down. Independent polling carried out for Plaid by Beaufort Research of Cardiff showed that among those saying they were certain or very likely to vote in an

The Tories have doubled their lead over Labour over the past month, according to an opinion poll.

Labour has fallen to its lowest ever opinion poll rating in a YouGov poll for The Sun. On the general election question, the Tories were at 41 down two from the last YouGov poll, Labour on 22 down five and the Lib Dems up one on 19. The Sun calculates that this would deliver the Tories a majority of 152. However, the poll contains numbers that should worry the Tories and show just how badly the ma...

The Tories continue to maintain a strong lead over Labour despite some narrowing of the gap over the past month, according to an opinion poll today.

An 8 point lead for the Labour Party in one opinion poll is just one poll, though the party has good reasons to be confident about its prospects not only in Oldham East and Saddleworth on Thursday, but also in national elections in Scotland and Wales as well major local elections in four months time. But this may tell us something about how the government is turning voters off - and about how most...