Voters split over government’s Rwanda policy
Handily, two different pollsters have new data out following the court ruling that the government’s Rwanda deportations policy is illegal. … Read the full post »
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Handily, two different pollsters have new data out following the court ruling that the government’s Rwanda deportations policy is illegal. … Read the full post »
YouGov polling claims 15% of people are saying it is not acceptable to drink a cup of tea during even an informal work meeting. … Read the full post »
The more important a policy area is to the public, the worse the public rates the government on it in new polling from Ipsos. … Read the full post »
The Fulham West by-election 1938 was won for Labour by Edith Summerskill, taking the seat from the Conservatives by 52%-48% in the face of widespread predictions by pundits that the Tories would hold on. Why mention this? … Read the full post »
A good rule of thumb is that the more involved you are in politics, the more you over-estimate how much everyone else knows about politics. … Read the full post »
Reputable pollster, recent fieldwork, complete with nice graphic, so all good, right? … Read the full post »
See how badly Leave voters think the run of Conservative governments compares with (pro-European, pro-immigration) New Labour governments. … Read the full post »
New polling from Survation on what issues matter most to people for the local elections. … Read the full post »
This day in 2022 saw the appearance of the first edition of The Week in Polls, my weekly guide to British political polling. … Read the full post »
As I’ve commented on before, there’s an odd and unhelpful difference between what gets said about trans rights and what the public actually thinks. … Read the full post »