The Guardian today has an interesting report about Tessa Jowell pushing for a referendum on electoral reform on election day, backed up with some polling findings from some private polling by the Electoral Reform Society. By the wonders of the BPC disclosure rules the actual polling is no longer secret,
There is a new Populus poll in the Times. Topline voting intention, with changes since Populus's last poll, are CON 39%(-1), LAB 29%(-1), LDEM 18%(nc). It's another no change poll, but as I'm sure many will note, 10 points is a
ConHome, Political Betting and now David Blackburn at CoffeeHouse have all picked up on a paragraph from Jackie Ashley's column this morning which says "Some Labour people may think I'm sounding too gloomy, but those who have been privy to recent private polling are a
Today's Herald has a new TNS-BMRB poll (TNS-BMRB are, I should add, the rebranded System Three, not some strange newcomers!) Westminister voting intentions with changes since the previous TNS-BMRB Westminster poll in April are CON 18%(-1), LAB 39%(+3), LDEM 12%(+3), SNP 25%(-7). There were
There's rather too many partisan comments cropping up in the comments threads, so I can I remind people to follow the comments policy please... except in this thread, where you are welcome to indulge yourselves in tiresome and pointless partisan rants and oneupmanship.
There were two purported polls of medical professionals this week. A survey by Pulse, a magazine for GPs, surveyed 326 GPs on their voting intentions and found support standing at CON 52%, LAB 8%, LDEM 22%. Meanwhile a survey of NHS managers by the Health Service Journal found voting intentions
PoliticalBetting has a new voting intention poll from AngusReid. Topline figures with changes from last month are CON 38%(-2), LAB 24%(+1), LDEM 20%(nc), Others 17%. The poll was finished yesterday - I don't have a start date, but their last poll took 2 days so
The Times's front page story today says sex education will be made compulsory for all schoolchildren, ending parents right to withdraw their children from sex education lessons after the age of 14. The Times says "The Government is pressing ahead despite its own research, which shows that
There is a new YouGov poll out for Channel 4. The topline figures, with changes from their previous poll, are CON 41%(nc), LAB 27%(-1), LDEM 17%(+1). There is, clearly, no significant change from their previous poll conducted last week with all the parties within one percent of
The full tables for ICM's poll at the weekend are now up on their website here. It gives me a chance to go back and look properly at the questions on whether people support Tony Blair becoming the EU President. Up until now we've had some
I don't think the Telegraph actually published the topline voting intention figures from their monthly YouGov poll this month - I only noticed the Post Office and EU Presidency figures. Anyway, the full data is now up on YouGov's website. The topline figures are CON 41%
The Scottish Green Party have commissoned a YouGov poll of Holyrood voting intentions for their party conference. Topline figures, with changes from YouGov's last Scottish poll in September, are as follows: Holyrood constituency: CON 16%(nc), LAB 31%(+3), LDEM 14%(nc), SNP 34%(-2) Holyrood regional: CON
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