It would be an understatement to say Rishi Sunak has inherited a monumental task since taking over as Prime Minister. The country faces a myriad of economic challenges, driven by a war in Europe and exacerbated by the previous administration. Meanwhile, the Conservatives have been left in a similarly historic
A recent poll last night from Redfield & Wilton was doing the rounds on social media recently. It showed Rishi Sunak taking a 4% lead over Keir Starmer in who would make the best Prime Minister. As with many polls that gain traction on social media, the result seems counter-intuitive.
The first polling since Rishi became Prime Minister provides a fairly coherent picture of public opinion. Labour maintain a significant lead over the Conservatives, in the region of the mid twenties. Polls suggest Labour’s support sits at just above 50%, whilst estimates for the Conservatives centre around 24%. Both
Anyone who used to regularly read UKPollingReport has presumably noticed it has been many months since I have updated it. You’ve probably already assumed that it is being wound down, but the time has come to make it official. Over the next few weeks I’ll be archiving some
With a huge quantity of elections on Thursday, we also have a huge amount of opinion polling ahead of it. Here is a summary of the polling on this week’s elections and what we can predict about this week’s results from it. SCOTLAND The Scottish election race has
This morning the Communication Workers’ Union released a Survation constituency poll of Hartlepool, the first one we’ve seen (earlier in the campaign figures were released from a Focaldata MRP of the North, but you can’t really use MRP for a by-election – it doesn’t pick up the unique
Post-budget polling There were three immediate post-budget polls on the day of the budget from Opinium, SavantaComRes and YouGov. They all showed very high levels of approval – YouGov found 46% support, 11% opposed; Opinium found 52% approve, 12% disapprove; SavantaComRes found 60% satisfied and 11% dissatisfied. The following day YouGov
If you are looking at voting intention or best Prime Minister figures to judge how well an opposition leader is doing, the first thing to note is that they are relative. It’s not just about how well the opposition are doing, it’s about how well the government are
Yesterday Channel 4 news and JLPartners released an interesting poll of so-called “red wall” seats. A lot of things get written about “Red Wall seats” that don’t necessarily have much thought behind them. It is the Essex man or Worcester woman of the 2019 election, an easy buzzword that
There have been three GB opinion polls published over the last few days – YouGov/Times (4th/5th Nov) – CON 35%(-3), LAB 40%(+2), LDEM 7%(+1) (tabs) Opinium/Observer (5th/6th Nov) – CON 38%(nc), LAB 42%(+2), LDEM 7%(+1) (tabs) Survation (5th/6th Nov) – CON 39%(-2)
I’ve written over the YouGov website about the latest YouGov polling on how the government are handling the corona outbreak here. Polls across the board show that the public have a generally negative attitude towards how the government are handling the outbreak. The attempt here is to look under
Two voting intention polls in the Sunday papers. Deltapoll in the Mail on Sunday had CON 42%, LAB 38%, LDEM 6% (report here). Opinium in the Observer has CON 39%, LAB 42%, LDEM 5% (report here). I expect rather more attention will be given to the poll from Opinium as
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