article_snippet.sent: Opinion polls by YouGov since 2010 show the dramatic collapse in the Lib Dem support,  to barely 8 per cent .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg and Party's election strategists have insisted the poor national opinion poll ratings, which have seen Party stuck around the 8 per cent mark, are not reflected in the data gathered by canvassers and internal polling.
article_snippet.sent: A new survey by Lord Ashcroft had the Tories on 36 per cent, with Labour trailing on 30 per cent, Ukip on 11 per cent and the Lib Dems on 9 per cent .
article_snippet.sent: the Tories could be six points ahead of Labour, or three points behind, depending on which opinion poll to believe.
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron's day will have been brightened by a six-point lead in a survey by Lord Ashcroft.
article_snippet.sent: the Tories are on 36 per cent, with Labour trailing on 30 per cent, Ukip on 11 per cent and the Lib Dems on 9 per cent.
article_snippet.sent: Another poll by ICM for the Guardian also gave David Cameron's party a lead, but of only three points lead on 35 per cent to 32 per cent for Labour.
article_snippet.sent: However, the Sun's YouGov poll had Labour in the lead on 34 per cent to the Tories' 33 per cent, indicating that the battle for No 10 remains agonisingly close for the party leaders.
article_snippet.sent: Labour enjoyed a three-point lead in a Populus poll, on 36 per cent (up one point) to the Conservatives' 33 per cent (up one).
article_snippet.sent: North of the border, a TNS poll found Scottish National Party support continuing to surge to 54 per cent, almost two-and-a-half times Labour's 22 per cent.