Telegraph/YouGov: Lab 36 Con 35 LD 21 (Lab lead 1%)
The Lib Dems always surge in the polls once they get their fair share of airtime in an election campaign. Or do they? It's early days, of course, but the party hasn't made any gains since last week - in fact, it's slipped back a point to 21% in YouGov's poll. Is Charles Kennedy's strategy of launching mini-manifestos at 8.30am, when most editors are still munching their breakfasts, really working? Or is it leaving Labour and the Tories free to dominate the rest of the day and lead the evening news reports?
YouGov has also identified a challenge for politicians. Voters say they want to hear more about the long-term future of pensions, council tax and global warming - none of which are easy to tackle intelligently in the hurly-burly of an election campaign. Twenty-six percent of the sample say immigration and asylum are discussed too much, but nearly half want to hear more about them.
