Posted on August 31st, 2007 by Anthony Wells
Under the British Polling Council’s disclosure rules Populus have released the full table for the Conservative party’s private polling that was mentioned in the Telegraph this morning. The topline results, with changes from the last Populus poll, are CON 36% (+3), LAB 37% (-2), LDEM 16% (+1). It was carried out between the 25th and [...]
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Filed under: Populus, Voting Intention
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Anthony Wells
The last ICM poll showed the Conservatives gaining a single point, a movement too small to be significant by itself. This month’s YouGov poll also shows the Conservatives starting to inch upwards. The headline voting intention figures with changes from YouGov’s last poll are CON 33% (+1), LAB 41% (-1), LDEM 14% (nc).
The Labour [...]
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Filed under: Voting Intention, YouGov
Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Anthony Wells
There is a widespread perception that the public are very draconian on law and order: hang ‘em, flog ‘em, lock ‘em up and throw away the key. In one sense they certainly are. Asked in this month’s ICM poll if sentences passed by the courts are too soft, too harsh or about right people overwhelmingly [...]
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Filed under: Crime
Posted on August 26th, 2007 by Anthony Wells
ICM’s August poll for the Guardian has Labour’s led broadly steady at 5 points. The headline figures with changes from the last ICM poll, conducted for the Sunday Mirror, are CON 34%(+1), LAB 39%(nc), LDEM 18%(nc). Since bank holiday weekends are notorious for producing weird and wonderful samples, this poll was actually conducted in the [...]
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Filed under: ICM, Voting Intention
Posted on August 26th, 2007 by Anthony Wells
A YouGov poll for the Fabian society suggests that on average people think the Prime Minister should be paid a salary of £135,000. This is lower than Gordon Brown achieved receives (the PM’s salary is about £187,000) but was higher than the salaries people thought fair for every other group YouGov asked about.
They thought a [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2007 by Anthony Wells
A new ICM poll in the Daily Mail shows 82% of people think the revised EU treaty should be ratified by referendum, rather than left to Parliament. As David Boothroyd rightly pointed out in the comments here over the weekend, that doesn’t necessarily mean much as polls invariably tell pollsters they like referendums on nearly [...]
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Filed under: Europe, ICM
