Populus Poll

I'm moving house tomorrow so may not be around to write about the monthly Populus poll that should be out on Tuesday or Wednesday. Feel free to use this thread to discuss it when it appears!

Latest Scottish Voting Intention

There is a sorry absence of Scottish voting intention polls these days. Once upon a time the Scottish press used to commission regular polls, often from TNS System Three. More recently they only really crop up in the run up to elections. All we have to go on are the

The best Prime Minister we never had

YouGov have carried out a survey of political academics for the Political Studies Association and asked who the best Prime Minister we never had was. Previous surveys of PSA academics showed they were mostly Labour supporters, so no surprise to see Labour figures take the top two spots - Denis

Why do 15% of people think Vince Cable is sleazy?

On Tuesday Newsnight had an ICM poll showing that 57% of people thought that Gordon Brown was "tainted by sleaze". We've had a flurry of polls showing people think horrible things about Gordon Brown at a time when the government is getting a bad press, so

64% of primary schools will have a nativity play this year

This isn't really a opinion poll, but its the same sort of rubbish media reporting of surveys. The Sunday Telegraph had a survey at the weekend which claimed "only one in five schools are­ planning to perform a traditional nativity play this year." It showed no

ICM give the Conservatives an 11-point lead

A new ICM poll in the Sunday papers apparently has topline voting intention figures (with charges from their last poll) of CON 41% (+4), LAB 30% (-1), LDEM 19% (-2). The exact dates of the poll aren't available yet, but normally ICM polls published on a Sunday have

YouGov suggest Nick Clegg is set to be next Lib Dem leader

Mike Smithson at political betting is reporting the YouGov poll of Lib Dem members, due to be released by Sky News later on tonight, shows Nick Clegg leading Chris Huhne amongst the 678 Lib Dem members surveyed by 56% to 44%. When the poll was conducted 52% had already voted,

Ipsos MORI show 9 point Tory lead

Ipsos MORI don't have a political monitor this month (they are reviewing their sampling points), but they have released voting intention figures from their telephone Omnibus. The topline voting intention figures, with changes from MORI's last poll (conducted at the start of the month for the

YouGov give Conservatives double-digit lead

YouGov's monthly poll for the Telegraph has topline voting intention figures (with changes from the last YouGov poll a week ago) of CON 43% (+2), LAB 32% (nc), LDEM 14% (nc). The last poll was a snap one done straight after the furore over the missing benefit data

Tories 13 points ahead in ComRes poll

A new ComRes poll for Tuesday's Independent has headline voting intention figures, with changes from last month, of CON 40% (-1), LAB 27% (-6), LDEM 18%(+2) and Others 14%. The 13 point Conservative lead is the largest recorded for almost twenty years; in the unlikely event that

Sunday polls

There are apparently new polls tomorrow in the News of the World and the Mail on Sunday. The News of the World poll is by MSL, a sister company of ICM - both are owned by Creston plc. I've never them do political media polls before, if I

Big Lib Dem recovery in latest ICM poll

A new ICM poll for the Guardian has topline figures of CON 37%, LAB 31%, LDEM 21%. Changes since the last poll are Conservatives minus 6, Labour minus 4, Liberal Democrats plus 6 (and by implication, the 'others' up four). From the last ICM Guardian poll, the changes