Veils and Crosses

There are two recent ICM polls on wearing religious symbols and clothing in public. The first for the News of the World last weekend found overwhelming opposition to BA in the “necklace row” – 80% of people said that British Airways had been wrong to enforce their uniform policy over a women who wanted to [...]

Communicate puts Labour ahead

A new Communicate Research poll in Tuesday’s Independent puts Labour 2 points ahead of the Conservatives. The topline figures with changes from Communicate’s poll last month are CON 34%(-4), LAB 36%(+4), LDEM 17%(+3). Since April MORI are the only other pollster to have reported a Labour lead in a voting intention poll.
Obviously the poll suggests [...]

Harriet Harman and the Labour Deputy Leadership

The Indy reports a YouGov poll on the Labour Deputy leadership campaign. Since it comes via the Harriet Harman camp, the report predictably paints a very positive picture for Harman. But, I hear the cynics amongst you cry, what do the actual figures say?
YouGov asked two sets of questions about the leadership contenders. The first [...]

BBC – according to the Telegraph, BBC audience research in the weeks after Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997 found that 44% of respondents thought the coverage had been excessive and over emotional.
ICM/Retail Week – 77% of peopel think that Farepak’s directors should be held liable to give financial assistance to customers who lost their savings.
Populus/BBC [...]

ICM show the SNP in the lead

The second of ICM’s regular voting intention polls for the Scottish Parliament is in today’s Scotsman. The topline voting intention figures with changes from last month are, for the constituency vote, CON 13%(-1), LAB 29% (-1), LDEM 17%(+2), SNP 34%(+2), SSP 3%(-1) and in the regional vote CON 12%(-2), LAB 26%(-), LDEM 19%(+2), SNP 31%(+3), [...]

Sunday Polls

Three polls this Sunday, from ICM, NOP and MORI.
An ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph finds 52% of Scots in favour of independence. This is a similar figure to that found in the first of ICM’s new regular polls for the Scotsman, but contrasts with the figure YouGov found in their poll for the [...]