Polls aplenty

If we needed a reminder not to get overly excited about small variations in the opinion polls, it comes today with two surveys from the same pollster taken at pretty much the same time which return slightly different results. The YouGov survey for today’s Telegraph has the Tories on 38, down two, Labour on 31, up 1, and the Lib Dems on 19, up two. While the one for the People has the Tories on 40, Labour on 31 and the Lib Dems on 18. There are also two other polls that came out on Friday. Ipsos-Mori which had the Tories on 40, Labour up six to 32 and the Lib Dems on 16. An Angus-Reid poll, the only one to show the Tories on course for an overall majority, had the Tories on 40, Labour on 24 and the Lib Dems on 19.

Bearing in mind the caveat above, the fact so many polls show the election in hung parliament territory should be causing some concern in Tory circles.