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Our latest daily polling figures for The Sun (fieldwork 17th-18th April) are:
Conservative 32%
Labour 26%
Liberal Democrat 33%
Others 8%
The general election will be held on May 6. On a scale of 0 (certain NOT to vote) to 10 (absolutely certain to vote), how likely are you to vote in the general election?
0 - Certain NOT to vote: 4%
1: 0%
2: 1%
3: 2%
4: 1%
5: 3%
6: 1%
7: 3%
8: 5%
9: 11%
10 - Absolutely certain to vote: 68%
Don't know: 2%
Additional questions
All three main parties say they will reduce government borrowing sharply over the next few years, by raising taxes and/or cutting public spending. Leaving aside whether you support any of the particular policies the parties are putting forward, do you think, in each case, that their sums add up – that, if they implement their policies will they hit their target for reducing government borrowing?
Conservatives
Yes, their sums probably do add up: 21%
No, they probably don't add up: 56%
Not sure: 23%
Labour
Yes, their sums probably do add up: 24%
No, they probably don't add up: 52%
Not sure: 24%
Liberal Democrats
Yes, their sums probably do add up: 26%
No, they probably don't add up: 36%
Not sure: 37%
Here are some proposals that have been made in the current election. In each case, do you support or oppose it?
Tax: Scrap income tax on earnings of less than £10,000 a year. The £17billion cost of this will be paid for by a tax on bigger houses, a tax on airline flights, restricting tax relief on pensions savings for higher-rate taxpayers, and attempting to clamp down on tax avoidance.
Support: 66%
Oppose: 20%
Don't know: 14%
Defence: Replace Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system and develop a variant that is a lot cheaper but less powerful and possibly easier to detect and stop.
Support: 37%
Oppose: 37%
Don't know: 26%
Europe: Give the European Union more powers on justice issues, bank regulation, the flow of asylum seekers, limiting climate change and cooperate more on security and defence.
Support: 18%
Oppose: 65%
Don't know: 17%
Euro: scrap the Pound and join the Euro when the conditions are right.
Support: 21%
Oppose: 65%
Don't know: 14%
Immigration: Give an amnesty to 1 million illegal immigrants who have lived in Britain for ten years, speak good English and don't have a criminal record.
Support: 35%
Oppose: 49%
Don't know: 16%
Prisons: Allow 58,000 criminals a year to do community service instead of going to prison by banning jail terms of less than six months.
Support: 33%
Oppose: 50%
Don't know: 17%
Public sector pay: Limit pay rises for public sector workers for the next two years to £400 a year.
Support: 57%
Oppose: 24%
Don't know: 19%
Higher education: scrap university tuition fees over six years, and increase taxes to pay for this.
Support: 31%
Oppose: 48%
Don't know: 20%
Voting: Change the voting system for electing MPs, so that individual constituencies become much larger and parties are represented in parliament broadly in line with their national vote.
Support: 54%
Oppose: 16%
Don't know: 29%
Energy: Stop any new nuclear power stations from being built and attempt to solve the energy crisis by coal-fired power generation plants and wind turbines instead.
Support: 32%
Oppose: 41%
Don't know: 27%
Additional question (fieldwork 18th April):
Leaving aside how much you like or dislike them, how much do you feel you know what the following party leaders stand for?
Gordon Brown
I know a lot about what he stands for: 27%
A fair amount: 42%
Just a little: 17%
I know hardly anything about what he stands for: 14%
David Cameron
I know a lot about what he stands for: 20%
A fair amount: 42%
Just a little: 23%
I know hardly anything about what he stands for: 15%
Nick Clegg
I know a lot about what he stands for: 15%
A fair amount: 36%
Just a little: 29%
I know hardly anything about what he stands for: 19%