Tories Ahead Of Labour By Five Points - Poll

The Conservative Party is leading Labour by five points, the latest poll suggests.

With one week to go until the election, the monthly Ipsos MORI survey for the Evening Standard newspaper suggests the Tories are on 35% with Labour trailing on 30%.

It suggests a reversal of fortunes for the two main parties compared to the previous Ipsos MORI poll on 16 April, which suggested Labour had a two-point lead .

The latest survey - conducted between 26 and 28 April - suggests the Lib Dems climbed to 8%, up one point from last month's poll, while UKIP remained unchanged on 10%.

The Greens also remained steady on 8%.

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Labour and the Tories have been neck and neck in most polls since the start of the year, with neither establishing a sustained lead exceeding the typical three-point margin of error.

Sky News Senior Political Correspondent Jason Farrell said: "There have been other polls that have shown the Tories with this kind of lead - one ICM/Guardian poll about two weeks ago gave them a six-point lead, and Lord Ashcroft did a national poll last week that also gave them a six-point lead.

"But the majority of polls over the campaign period have given Labour a slight lead.

"So when you average them all out, they are still level-pegging. I think we need to wait for a few more polls to come out to see if this is a trend."

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Farrell added: "But if the Conservatives do have a five-point lead and the Liberal Democrats are creeping up to 8%, you could start to see the potential for a possible coalition between the Lib Dems and the Tories again, although the tensions between them are fraying at the moment ."

Polls have consistently suggested that neither the Conservatives nor Labour are likely to win an overall majority in the 7 May vote.

Track how the major parties are faring in the latest opinion polls with the Sky News poll of polls , which averages all the latest polls to get the overall picture.

The Tories (34%) seem to be inching ahead of Labour (33%) in our poll of polls.

And in our Scottish poll of polls, the SNP is on 50%, double Labour on 25%.

Sky News’ latest projection is a hung parliament, with the Conservatives on 282 seats and Labour on 271.

That would leave both the parties well short of the 326 seats they would need for a majority.

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