Posted on September 30th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
Earlier this week the Government was defeated at the Labour party conference over their plans for more private sector involvement in the NHS. Although the anti-government motion was actually opposed by a majority of Labour’s constituency party delegates, it passed because the trade unions backed it almost unaminously.
Over the last week there have been a [...]
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Filed under: ICM, NHS
Posted on September 29th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
Every poll of the general public so far has shown Ken Clarke to be the most popular candidate for the Conservative leadership. Every poll asking how people would vote with various potential Tory leaders has shown that Clarke would put on the most votes. However, every such poll has also had to be hedged with [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, YouGov
Posted on September 27th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
Welcome to old readers and new. Some people here will be my regular readers from elsewhere, other people will be entirely new and will probably be asking themselves exactly what UK Polling Report is, what it’s doing here on YouGov’s website.
Polling Report exists to report the latest opinion polls and to discuss what they mean, [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
The second conference of the season, and a fresh round of conference polls. Populus and ICM both have new polls in this mornings papers.
Populus’s poll looked at whether or not Tony Blair has managed to permanently change the public image of the Labour party. While we’ve already seen that Gordon Brown is seen as [...]
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Filed under: ICM, Labour, Populus
Posted on September 23rd, 2005 by Anthony Wells
The Times’s report on Populus’s conference polls at the weekend included a question asking people to put themselves on a left/right scale, ICM did a similar thing on Monday in the Guardian, and the Times also referred to a YouGov poll published in a paper by Peter Kellner in the Political Quarterly. As promised I’ve [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, ICM, Labour, Lib Dem, Populus, YouGov
Posted on September 21st, 2005 by Anthony Wells
ICM regularly carry out polls for Retail Week, and you’ll regularly not find me mentioning them since they deal with exciting things like how often you shop at Primark. The most recent one is more interesting however, dealing with question of whether or not people agree with the EU quotas on Chinese textile imports.
Asked straight [...]
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Filed under: Europe, ICM
