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Populus's latest poll for the Times suggests that 70% of respondents want John Prescott to resign or be sacked, including a majority (59%) of Labour voters. Only 23% of people think that Prescott should retain his position. The poll also carries bad news for Tony Blair - the
Two polls in the Sunday papers. Firstly the Mail on Sunday carries a new BPIX poll showing a Conservative lead of 10 points. BPIX don't seem to have carried out a poll since all the way back in April, the topline figures with changes from then are CON
On the anniversary of the London bombings the Sun has published a new YouGov poll of British Muslims, along with a proper parrallel survey of British non-Muslims. Whenever there is a poll of British Muslims it inevitably shows that a small proportion of British Muslims symapthise with terrorism, and someone
British people are more positive towards Islam than British Muslims think Every time a pollster carries out a survey of the opinions of British Muslims and I report it here, someone in the comments section will inevitably look at a finding saying that x% of British Muslims sympathise with terrorism
A new YouGov survey shows that British people have a residual positive attitude towards Americans and the USA in general, but that US foreign policy has left a deep well of anti-Americanism, with people deeply hostile towards present US policy. Asked about their general feelings towards the US, 54% of
Populus's standard monthly poll on voting intentions is not until next week, but today's Times carries a separate Populus survey of British Muslims. As with previus polls of British Muslims, the survey suggests that the majority of British Muslims are opposed to terrorism and supportive of
After two months of polls showing consistent significant Conservative leads, an ICM poll in the Sunday Telegraph has the lead dropping to just 1 point as support shifts from the Lib Dems to Labour. The topline figures with changes from the ICM poll in the Guardian a fortnight ago are
The Scotsman carries a new Ipsos-MORI poll on voting intentions in Scotland (the report mentions changes from an earlier Ipsos-MORI poll three months ago, though I was not previously aware of this). The topline figures for voting intention in the Scottish Parliament constituency elections, with changes from the last elections
A golden rule in looking at polls should be to examine to the big picture, the trend in the polls as a whole, rather than trying to draw conclusions from individual polls. However, because I try to report every new political poll that's published, this blog sometimes misses
A new YouGov poll shows David Cameron overtaking Blair as the party leader people think would make the best Prime Minister. 30% chose Cameron compared to 28% for Blair and 6% for Menzies Campbell. While Michael Howard did briefly match Tony Blair in the same question, this is the first
ICM have conducted a new survey of British Muslims in the aftermath of the Forest Gate raid earlier this month. 54% of of British Muslims thought that Sir Ian Blair should resign over the bungled raid, with 29% saying he should stay on (the Guardian report notes that respondents in
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