THE Green Party has moved ahead of the Liberal Democrats in the latest YouGov polling for the Sun (1). In the latest poll, released late last night, the Greens are in fourth and up two percentage points to 7%.
The poll comes hot on the heels of an Ashcroft National Poll (ANP) last week (2), which also put the Greens in fourth and ahead of the junior Coalition partners.
Here's is how some of the key political commentators on micro-blogging website Twitter reacted:
On day BBC tell Greens they cannot join TV debates due to lack of increase in support, YouGov put Greens ahead of Lib Dems for first time.
— Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour) October 29, 2014
Greens will be rightly chirpy about driving the Lib Dems into fifth place in the latest YouGov. Labour back to 3 point lead. Not good enough
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) October 30, 2014
YouGov/Sun poll tonight: Greens push Libs into 5th for 1st time with @YouGov - LAB 34%, CON 31%, UKIP 17%, GRN 7%, LD 6%. Yet no TV debate?
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) October 29, 2014
YouGov poll shows Greens pushing LDs into 5th place for first time LAB 34% CON 31% UKIP 17% GRN 7% LD 6% They should be in TV debates.
— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) October 29, 2014
Tonight's @YouGov poll has the Greens ahead of the Lib Dems for the first time (7%-6%).
— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) October 29, 2014
YouGov becomes the second pollster to show the Green Party ahead of the Liberal Democrats - 7% vs 6% http://t.co/xL0Mbg7Vbk
— Jon Stone (@joncstone) October 29, 2014