Posted on June 30th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
A golden rule in looking at polls should be to examine to the big picture, the trend in the polls as a whole, rather than trying to draw conclusions from individual polls. However, because I try to report every new political poll that’s published, this blog sometimes misses out on the bigger picture. Hence in [...]
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Filed under: Monthly Round-Ups
Posted on June 30th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
A new YouGov poll shows David Cameron overtaking Blair as the party leader people think would make the best Prime Minister. 30% chose Cameron compared to 28% for Blair and 6% for Menzies Campbell. While Michael Howard did briefly match Tony Blair in the same question, this is the first time a YouGov poll has [...]
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Filed under: Voting Intention, YouGov
Posted on June 27th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
ICM have conducted a new survey of British Muslims in the aftermath of the Forest Gate raid earlier this month. 54% of of British Muslims thought that Sir Ian Blair should resign over the bungled raid, with 29% saying he should stay on (the Guardian report notes that respondents in the South were more supportive [...]
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Filed under: ICM, Terrorism
Posted on June 26th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
YouGov/My Sunday, My Choice – 57% of people wanted to be able to shop where and when they wanted on Sundays, 23% disagree
MORI/Greenpeace – an international comparative survey about how much extra people say they would be willing to pay for a more environmentally friendly computer. People in the UK would apparantly pay an extra [...]
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Filed under: Round up
Posted on June 26th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
The monthly YouGov poll for the Telegraph has the Conservative lead stretching slightly to 7 points. The topline figures with changes from last month are CON 39%(+1), LAB 32%(nc), LDEM 17%(+1). The changes from last month are not significant, but do suggest that the Conservatives are consolidating the lead they have enjoyed since the local [...]
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Filed under: Labour, Voting Intention, YouGov
Posted on June 24th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
Back in May an ICM poll for the BBC’s Politics Show asked if, in light of devolution, it was right or wrong that a Scottish MP can become Prime Minister of the whole UK. Then only 45% thought it was right, with 52% saying no. Professor John Curtice cast doubt on the poll earlier this [...]
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Filed under: Populus, Scotland, YouGov
