MORI show unemployment rising up the agenda

We should be getting Ipsos MORI's monthly voting intention survey soon, but in the meantime we do have their monthly issues tracker (they are done seperately these days - when MORI shifted to phone polling for their voting intention their unprompted most important issue tracker remained face-to-face).

The economy is, unsurprisingly, still seen as the most important issue, mentioned by 54% of respondents (significantly lower than its peak of 70% in January). Sharply rising now though is unemployment, the third most mentioned issue on 30%. According to MORI this is the highest level of concern over unemployment since 1995.

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Latest General Election Projection: Knife Edge Coalitions

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