The most striking characteristics of this afternoon’s exclusive new poll by Angus Reid Strategies for Politicalbetting.com are the increases in the shares for UKIP with the Tories slipping down to 38%.
Like yesterday’s YouGov poll the total proportion of respondents opting for other parties has seen an increase with Angus Reid reporting the largest share of any of the monthly pollsters. What YouGov did not tell us yesterday was the make-up of their “others” total. My guess is they saw a UKIP increase as well.
The fieldwork finished last night after a period when MPs expenses were making the headlines as well as the Tory decision on the Lisbon treaty referendum.
Whether it’s the latter that has driven the UKIP numbers I don’t know. But 6% of voters according to this poll are saying that they will go with UKIP which is the highest proportion by far in any survey since the effects of June’s Euro election worked its way out of the system.
So it looks as though the Tories are taking a hit but Labour are still in very serious trouble up just single point to 24%.
The poll took place online with a sample in excess of 2,000.
