Two new polls in the Sunday papers show the Conservative party in the lead for the first time since April. The ICM and YouGov polls were conducted immediately after David Cameron's election. YouGov's topline figures, with changes from their poll for Sky News conducted immediately prior
The Conservative party has finally chosen a leader and normal politics has resumed. Sky have released the final opinion poll of the Tory interregnum, conducted by YouGov. With the last few days newspapers having been an orgy of Cameronia, it is rather unsurprisingly a good poll for the Tories -
There is what really amounts to a Conservative leadership exit poll in tomorrow's Telegraph. It was conducted between Thursday and Friday and over 80% of Tory members polled told YouGov they had already voted - the actual turnout may well be lower than this since CCO's
The Turner Report into the future of pensions has now been published - the main recommendations, as expected, are that the pensionable age should gradually increase over the next 45 years (though to 68, not 67 as reported in the press), the state pension should be residence based and linked
I haven't paid much attention to the voting intention polls over recent months since without a Leader of the Opposition party politics are in a bit of a limbo. When people say how they would vote in a general election tomorrow, are they imagining a an election with
Prior to the July 7th bombings support for ID cards had appeared to be in serious decline. Back in 2003 YouGov had found a net approval rating of +63 for the introduction of ID cards, with support of 78%. By the week prior to the London bombing net approval had
The report of the Turner commission is expected to recommend that the state pensionable age be increased to 67 to pay for a higher state pension. This meets with very lukewarm support from the public in a new ICM poll in Tuesday's Guardian - only 36% support increasing
Following the tragic murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky at the weekend, the media has been in flurry over whether policemen should be routinely armed (despite the fact that practically no one seems to be calling for this) and, following a newspaper article by Lord Stevens, whether the death penalty should
2006 Knesset Election Results in projected number of Knesset seats. Abbreviations: Lik - Likud Kad - Kadima Lab - Labor-Meimad Shi - Shinui -the Secular Movement Shas - International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews MY - Meretz-Yahad and the Democratic Choice NU - Ichud Leumi (National Union) IOH - Israel
The start of what was the hunting season was greeted by a new opinion poll from ORB, commissed by the Countryside Alliance, which they claimed showed that support for a ban had dramatically fallen over the last 6 years, and now had only minority support. It was immediately rebutted by
Last week there was some fuss over the Times' decision to make their frontpage headline a story about a Populus poll that put David Davis ahead of David Cameron amongst Conservative voters. The actual number of Tory voters asked the question in the poll was only 122, meaning that
Last week Tony Blair suffered his first Commons defeat as Prime Minister over the provision in the Terrorism Bill to detain suspects for up to 90 days. How much damage has it done to Tony Blair? Is his authority irredeemably damaged, has he any chance of getting through his reforms
Sign up to receive occasional updates from UK Polling Report.