Posted on October 31st, 2005 by Anthony Wells
Britain’s current nuclear deterrent, the Trident system, is nearing the end of its lifespan and the govermment will soon have to decide how, and if, to replace it. Greenpeace has today published a new MORI poll, which shows the public are ambivalent at best about whether Britain should replace Trident.
Asked a straight question on whether [...]
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Filed under: Defence, MORI
Posted on October 30th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
There have been new polls on the Tory leadership by both YouGov and ICM over the weekend, and David Cameron seems increasingly unbeatable. YouGov’s poll in the Telegraph showed Cameron leading Davis amongst the general public by 34% to 13%, and amongst Conservative supporters by 56% to 16%.
Asked who would make the better leader on [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, ICM, YouGov
Posted on October 24th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
On Monday afternoon Tony Blair is set to announce new government plans for secondary education and, with rather excellent timing, the free-market think tank Reform have published a new ICM poll on education.
The poll suggests that people would be supportive of an increase in choice in education. 76% of people told ICM they agreed that [...]
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Filed under: Education, ICM
Posted on October 21st, 2005 by Anthony Wells
With Liam Fox eliminated the Tory leadership contest moves to the party membership. We’ve already seen in YouGov’s poll earlier this week that David Cameron holds a commanding lead amongst party members, but their voting decisions will obviously be influenced by how the polls suggest the voting public will react to David Davis and David [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, MORI
Posted on October 20th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
The Conservative leadership election is (briefly!) down to three candidates – David Davis, Liam Fox and David Cameron – and Thursday’s Telegraph has what is likely to be the only poll between the first and second leadership ballots. It shows that David Cameron’s lead amongst party members is now overwhelming; he would easily defeat either [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, YouGov
Posted on October 15th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
The first round of the Tory leadership contest is on Tuesday and the last few days have been dominated by questions about David Cameron’s past – specifically whether or not he ever used drugs at university. Today is our first chance of seeing whether or not the allegations have made any difference to the contest.
Sadly [...]
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Filed under: BPIX, Communicate, Conservatives
