Updates from the other place

Just a couple of links really:

After a piece a little while ago on what Labour voters thought of Ed Miliband and what Conservative voters thought of David Cameron, both leaders saw a boost among their own supporters after the party conferences. Full piece is here.

The other one is a bit longer and about the difficulties you find with polling on policies.
We did some work on free schools a little while ago and the experience of condensing entire BBC or Wikipedia articles on the government's flagship education policy into a short, three sentence paragraph is a strange one so the blog post just talks about things to bear in mind when you see polling results on particular policies. Full piece is here.