New Ipsos MORI poll shows only a 3 point Tory lead. "Tories down five!"

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It was conducted between the 16th-22nd, so not the weekend just gone, the weekend *before* that.

So firstly, discard any idea that it& #39;s anything to do with Boris vs Dom, the bedroom stuff and so on. Not unless respondents had time machines.

The Greensill & Cameron stuff was in the news of course (though frankly, that really isn& #39;t the sort of stuff that tends to cut through).

More importantly, my caveat when we see any unusual poll is to *wait and see if other polls show a similar trend or pattern*.

In this case we don& #39;t need to - there are already other polls by Redfield&Wilton, ComRes, Survation, Opinium & YouGov that had fieldwork that overlapped.

Respectively, they showed a 10 point Tory lead, a 9 point Tory lead, a 6 point Tory lead, an 11 point Tory lead and a 10 point Tory lead.

So this one is in all likelihood just an outlier. No harm in that - but you need to look at the polls as a whole, not focus on the fun ones.