On the eve of Liberal Democrat conference, leader Nick Clegg has announced a flagship policy of tax cuts to create a distinctive identity in the crowded middle ground of British politics. Will it work?

A new ICM poll for the Guardian has the Tory lead at nine points, 38 to 29. However, both main parties have fallen back since the last ICM poll which had the Tories on 39 and Labour on 31. This new ICM poll has the Lib Dems on 23, up four since the last ICM poll and three since last month’s Guardian / ICM poll. On a uniform national swing, this poll would leave the Tories 20 seats short of a...

The most significant news in a new ICM poll in the Sunday Express is that the Lib Dems have slumped to their lowest ratings from the firm since well before Nick Clegg became leader last December. The shares with changes on the last survey from the pollster nearly a fortnight ago are: CON 45% (+2): LAB 29% (+1): LD 16% (-3) 16% is not much better than the 14% that ICM had at the start of October 20...

There is a new ICM poll in the Sunday Telegraph which is - rather inexplicably - already up on their website here. The topline figures with changes from the last ICM poll are CON 40%(-4), LAB 28%(-4), LDEM 22%(+6). The poll was conducted on the 4th and 5th February. The changes since the last poll are

The firm's 16% is the lowest since Clegg became leader The most significant news in a new ICM poll in the Sunday Express is that the Lib Dems have slumped to their lowest ratings from the firm since well before Nick Clegg became leader last December. This is a particular blow for the party because ICM's methodology

ICM have a new poll out in the Sunday Telegraph. The topline figures, with changes from the previous ICM poll, are CON 43%(+1), LAB 30%(nc), LDEM 18%(-3). The poll shows no significant change in Labour and Conservative support from the previous ICM poll, conducted a fortnight or so ago for the Guardian. The Liberal Democrats are

Sunday’s News of the World carries a new ICM poll of 192 Labour held marginal constituencies where the Conservatives are in second place. The poll shows a swing of 11.5% in these seats, which according to ICM would equate to 164 Conservative gains and a majority of 78 seats. ICM did a similar poll

The LibDems must be desperate. So depressing is their opinion poll performance at the moment that they are even resorting to talking common sense about tax and public spending. Not only is their leader Nick Clegg proposing tax cuts for the lower paid - a policy which any politician of social conscience should recognise as morally and politically compelling - but he even suggested on the Today prog...

LABOUR leader Ed Miliband suffered a fresh blow last night when an ICM poll revealed that he was even more unpopular than Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, de

Unless Nick Clegg has managed to hypnotise an extra 6% of voters, the latest ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph must be a rogue, although with such a long time to wait before the next general election (with all the events that may or may not unfold), any poll now is pretty much useless.