The latest YouGov poll conducted yesterday for The Sunday Times and published this morning shows Labour edging ahead on 34%
The Conservatives are now at 32% where the two main parties have been neck and neck for a while on 33%
Other polls show differing results though with the latest Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday having the Conservatives ahead by 3 points on 33%. The BBC's poll tracker still has them level pegging on 33%
I'm always mindful of polls commissioned by newspapers that inevitably will show a political bias in their results
There's current demand for the pound with talk this week of hedge funds buying options that leave them long GBP after the election but, as the polls continue to show, there is no certainty as to the outcome
Many bookmakers have Labour marginally ahead and its the bookes not the pollsters who normally get this right
Also on election news the Labour leader,Ed Miliband,has this morning ruled out any informal deal with the SNP to add to his denials of any formal deal being planned
I want to be clear about this. No coalition,no tie-ins. I'm not doing deals with the SNP
Seems to me like both main parties going all out for an overall majority and we may yet be surprised by the outcome but the likelihood of a hung parilaiement can not be ruled out yet or, indeed until all votes have been cast.
