YouGov have published a lengthy piece of polling on attitudes towards immigration, conducted for a three party Channel 4 Dispatches programme on the subject. There's plenty of interest in the figures here. What interested me most there is the contrast in attitudes towards asylum seekers and economic migrants.
“In the next election for Mayor of London, the present Mayor, Ken Livingstone is standing for re-election as the Labour Party candidate. Boris Johnson is standing for the Conservatives, Brian Paddick is standing for the Liberal Democrats, Siân Berry is standing for the Green Party, and there will be other
A new Ipsos MORI poll for the London elections, commissioned by Unison, shows Ken Livingstone narrowly in the lead. The first preference votes, with changes from MORI's last poll of the mayoral election back in February, are JOHNSON 40%(+2), LIVINGSTONE 41%(-1), PADDICK 14%(-2). Once second
Populus's monthly poll for the Times had topline voting intentions, with changes from last month, of CON 39%(+2), LAB 33%(-1), LDEM 17%(-2). The poll was conducted between the 4th and 6th April. While Populus tend to be the pollster that produces the most favourable figures
Politicshome, which officially launches today, has up as Breaking news that the lastest poll (presumably YouGov for the Evening Standard) has Boris Johnson leading Ken Livingstone by 13 points. I'll post properly once I've seen the poll. UPDATE: The new YouGov poll for the Evening Standard
There wasn't actually much more of interest in the ICM poll in the Sunday Telegraph. What did attract my attention is the allegation from the Boris Johnson campaign that he had been the victim of push polling. Now, I'm in no position to say whether that&
Various questions were asked last week about the age weighting on the YouGov poll which made it look as though there were far too many over 55s in the London sample. Putting on my YouGov hat, what actually went on under the bonnet is a bit more complicated than that,
A new ICM poll in the Sunday Telegraph shows a slight recovery for Labour, putting them back above thirty. Conservative support is also up slightly from the last ICM poll so the Tory lead remains in double figures - at 11 points enough to produce an overall Conservative majority if
Ipsos MORI's monthly poll has appeared after what appears to be a lengthy delay - the fieldwork was carried out way back between the 13th and 18th March, so actually about the same time as the first ICM and YouGov polls that showed big Conservative leads back in
Or at least, that's the conclusion I draw from the ICM poll. If you look at all the other questions in the survey that asked respondents to compare Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone on various criteria, Livingstone is ahead upon nearly all of them: he has a 10
ICM have a new poll on the London election for the Guardian, their first of this election (I think it's their first since 2000, since I can't find any ICM polls from the last mayoral election) and only the second phone poll of the election by
A YouGov poll for Liberty shows a high level of support for keeping the 28 day limit on holding terrorist suspects without charge if the rules are relaxed to allow the police to continue to question them. Previous polls have always shown public support for allowing the police to hold
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