No proper figures yet, but Matthew D'Ancona's column in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph is already up and reveals ICM have a new poll including
European election voting intentions, and that it shows Labour in third place with less than 20 %.
On
European election voting intentions, Labour (32 per cent) lead Ukip (21 per cent) with the Conservatives and the Greens tied on 16 per cent each, and the LibDems on 8 per cent.
There is even better news for UKIP and the Greens on
European election voting intention.
Judging by this and
the European election voting intention figures the fuss over the UKIP posters is more likely to have helped their support than damaged it.
Not exact matches
ICM also asked about
voting intentions in the
European elections, for the first time since February.
In my view, the
European election results will make little difference to
voting intentions at the general
election.
Possible differing approaches to polling the
European election shouldn't make a difference, since Westminster
voting intentions were asked first.
Still, for those getting rather bored with the
voting intention figures, we can look ahead to several potentially significant events — many commentators have suggested Gordon Brown is putting great weight in the G20 summit this week to give his premiership a boost, beyond that is the budget, which could work either way, and past that we have the local and
european elections, which often lead to realignments in the national opinion polls.
This is the highest «none of the above»
vote since the time of the 2009
European elections, when successes for UKIP, the BNP and the Greens in that proportional -
voting contest transferred briefly into well - above - average general
election voting intentions.