Miliband’s ‘Paxo bounce’ gone as Tories draw level

Four-point lead was just a blip, says The Sun: but Labour are polling way ahead in London

Columnist Don Brind

The Sunday Times YouGov poll giving Labour a four-point lead over the Conservatives – suggesting voters liked Ed Miliband’s feisty performance opposite Jeremy Paxman – has now been written off as a “blip”.

A new YouGov survey for The Sun shows Labour and the Tories tied on 35 per cent. "Ed Miliband's Paxo 'bounce' was actually a blip; level pegging yet again,” tweeted the paper’s political editor, Tom Newton Dunn.

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is a former BBC lobby correspondent and Labour press officer who is watching the polls for The Week in the run-up to the 2015 election.