MORI poll on Evolution

The teaching of evolution is a big issue in the USA – the PollingReport.com archive has whole pages of opinion polls on evolution.
Polls in the UK don’t ask about evolution, after all, we don’t need to. Apart from the controversy over Emmanuel College Gateshead a couple of years ago it simply isn’t an issue here [...]

MORI Monthly Political Monitor

MORI’s monthly political monitor isn’t quite as grim for the Liberal Democrats as their poll for the Sun earlier this month. The topline figures, with changes from their previous poll, are CON 40% (+1), LAB 38%(-1), LDEM 17%(+2). This probably doesn’t reflect a Lib Dem recovery just yet – the fieldwork was actually carried out [...]

39% of Lib Dems would like Charlie back

A new ICM poll in tomorrow’s Sunday Telegraph suggests that 39% of Liberal Democrat voters would prefer to have Charles Kennedy back as their leader, while 47% would still like a new leader (though bearing in mind that this is a normal sized sample, the sub-sample of Lib Dem voters is so small that the [...]

Labour retake the lead as the Lib Dems Collapse

YouGov’s monthly poll for the Telegraph has the Labour party regaining the lead after a collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote. The headline figures with changes from last month are CON 39%(+1) LAB 40%(+4) LDEM 13%(-5). The poll was conducted between Tuesday and Thursday, so was after Mark Oaten’s resignation but mostly before Simon Hughes [...]

ICM Monthly Poll

ICM’s monthly poll for the Guardian has Labour and the Conservatives unchanged from last month, though Labour have narrowed the gap since ICM’s poll in the News of the World earlier this month. The topline figures with changes from the ICM/News of the World poll are CON 37%(-2) LAB 36%(+1) LD 19%(-1).
The Lib [...]

The Battle for the Centre Ground

More 4 News has a Populus poll on perceptions of the political parties. People were asked to rate the parties on a scale of 0-10, with 0 being very left wing and 10 being very right wing. On average voters put the Liberal Democrats at 4.55, Labour at 4.79 and the Conservatives at 6.00.
Tony Blair [...]