YouGov polls don't look too bad for the coalition

Just a quick post to highlight a few statistics from this weekend's YouGov poll. First up, we have the results of a question asking how well certain politicians are doing, which gives Cameron an approval rating of -6%, puts Miliband on -11%, and Clegg on -34%. The discrepancy with the overall voting intention is obvious: Labour are ahead on 43%, followed by the Tories on 39% and the Lib Dems on 9%. It seems that despite a steady decline since May, Cameron is still the Conservative's best electoral asset and Miliband is still failing to impress the public.

Despite Cameron's personal popularity, the Government's approval rating has fallen to -22%. But this figure won't upset the coalition too much, given that they believe that by 2013 there will be a resurgent economy and that they'll get all the credit. Based on this, the -28% rating for Miliband's ability to handle the economy, and the fact that all anyone in politics has talked about for the past two years has been recession and debt, I think the coalition will feel that if they stay committed to their deficit reduction programme they'll come out the other end in a very strong position indeed.