Scot Goes Pop: New TNS-BMRB poll fieldwork dates overlap with the polls that gave the SNP much bigger leads, so there’s no ‘narrowing of the gap’

By @JamesKelly

A NEW full-scale Scottish poll is out tonight from TNS-BMRB…

Scottish voting intentions for the May 2015 general election (TNS-BMRB, 14th January – 2nd February):

SNP 41%
Labour 31%
Conservatives 16%
Greens 6%
Liberal Democrats 4%
UKIP 2%

Although this poll shows a smaller SNP lead than recent polls from other companies, it’s important to stress that this categorically does NOT constitute “a narrowing of the gap” (as a Labour troll is already trying to have us believe on Twitter). We haven’t previously had a full-scale Scottish poll from TNS-BMRB since the referendum, so we don’t have any baseline numbers to work from.

It’s quite possible that a marginally better showing for Labour is simply an in-built “house effect” of TNS-BMRB’s unusual methodology, in much the same way that they were consistently one of the most No-friendly firms during the referendum (until the Great Convergence at the very end).

Click here to read the full poll analysis on Scot Goes Pop.

Picture courtesy of Henry Faber