Topline figures are CON 32%, LAB 42%, LDEM 8%, Others 17% (including UKIP on 7%).
On the regular leader ratings David Cameron's net rating is at minus 26 (no change from last week), Ed Miliband's at minus 28 (from minus 23 last week), Nick Clegg at minus 55 (no change), so Ed Miliband has dropped back behind Cameron.
Other ratings though are more negative for Cameron. 59% think he doesn't have a grip on the government, 68% think he is out of touch and people think he is weak rather than strong by 50% to 33% (compared to 45% weak and 39% strong a week ago). 42% of people do at least still see him as likable.
Asked about the recent U-turns 50% think this is a sign of weakness or incompetence, while 33% see it as a sign the government is willing to listen. This is a significant shift from when we asked a similar question a year ago and people were pretty evenly split between the two answers, suggesting that whereas people were once willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt when it came to u-turns, it is now starting to be seen as a negative sign.
There is majority opposition to both the proposed teachers strike and the industrial action by doctors. 55% are opposed to the teachers strike and 62% are opposed to the doctors action, which is only supported by 28%. 59% of people already see doctors as being very well paid and 33% think their pensions are already too high.
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Unlike most of the other professions we ask about, there is not majority support for doctors even having the legal right to strike. 48% think they should not be allowed to strike, compared to 44% who think they should. To put this in context, a majority of people think nurses, teachers, railway workers and fuel tanker drivers should have the right to strike, with majorities thinking that police officers and firefighters should not.
Turning to the monarchy questions, they continue to show extremely high levels of support for the monarchy as an institution and for the Queen herself. 73% want to keep the monarchy, compared to just 18% who support replacing it with an elected President. 71% think the monarchy is good for Britain, with just 9% thinking it is bad for the country.
67% think the Queen is one of Britain's best monarchs, but only 29% think she is the greatest of all of them.
66% of people want to see the Queen continue on the throne for as long as possible, compared to 23% who would like to see her retire and pass on the throne to her heirs. The Queen is also seen as more in touch than government ministers and politicians - although it is more a case of negative opinions of politicians than positive ones of the Queen, 28% think the Queen is more in touch, but 45% think neither of them are!
38% of people have the impression that support for the monarchy has grown over the last 60 year, 22% that it has fallen and 27% that is has stayed much the same.