YouGov Euros poll has Ukip moving up – Opinium moving down
The big polling news is that Lord Ashcroft has announced that starting this week he’ll be doing a weekly phone poll right through until the general election. He’ll also be doing regular battleground surveys.
This is a great development because so much of current polling is online and phone surveys have now been reduced to just three a month – ComRes, ICM and Ipsos-MORI.
They are a lot more costly but, as we saw in 2010 and at he AV referendum in 2011 are more accurate.
Lord Ashcroft plays a huge part in providing the numbers to help us understand what’s is going on.
CON close gap to 1% again with Populus online
CON 35+3
LAB 36=
LD 8=
Ukip -3
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) May 12, 2014
UPDATE
@LordAshcroft's first phone poll is out and sees The Tories ahead Con 34, Lab 32, LD 9 UKIP 15
http://t.co/nl0bMLtQff
— The Screaming Eagles (@TSEofPB) May 12, 2014