Two new polls in the Sunday papers - BPIX in the Mail on Sunday and ICM in the Sunday Telegraph. ICM asked a hypothetical voting intention poll with Davis/Cameron as Conservative leader vs Brown as the Labour leader. The poll showed that Brown would win relatively easily over both
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Saturday's Telegraph has a snap YouGov poll reacting to the Question Time debate between David Cameron and David Davis. It shows that David Davis won the debate pretty convincingly and has made up some ground on Cameron, but despite this Cameron still enjoys a convincing lead amongst party
Britain's current nuclear deterrent, the Trident system, is nearing the end of its lifespan and the govermment will soon have to decide how, and if, to replace it. Greenpeace has today published a new MORI poll, which shows the public are ambivalent at best about whether Britain should
There have been new polls on the Tory leadership by both YouGov and ICM over the weekend, and David Cameron seems increasingly unbeatable. YouGov's poll in the Telegraph showed Cameron leading Davis amongst the general public by 34% to 13%, and amongst Conservative supporters by 56% to 16%
On Monday afternoon Tony Blair is set to announce new government plans for secondary education and, with rather excellent timing, the free-market think tank Reform have published a new ICM poll on education. The poll suggests that people would be supportive of an increase in choice in education. 76% of
With Liam Fox eliminated the Tory leadership contest moves to the party membership. We've already seen in YouGov's poll earlier this week that David Cameron holds a commanding lead amongst party members, but their voting decisions will obviously be influenced by how the polls suggest the
The Conservative leadership election is (briefly!) down to three candidates - David Davis, Liam Fox and David Cameron - and Thursday's Telegraph has what is likely to be the only poll between the first and second leadership ballots. It shows that David Cameron's lead amongst party
The first round of the Tory leadership contest is on Tuesday and the last few days have been dominated by questions about David Cameron's past - specifically whether or not he ever used drugs at university. Today is our first chance of seeing whether or not the allegations
With nearly all the newspaper commissed opinion polls covering the Conservative leadership election, it's easy to forget that the Labour party conference was also dominated by questions about their party leadership - when exactly should Tony Blair step down, and should Gordon Brown replace him? Since the Labour
We've seen David Cameron move into the lead amongst Tory party members, now a new Populus poll in tomorrow's Times has him ahead amongst Tory voters. At the start of September Populus found that Ken Clarke was the first choice of 55% of Tory voters, with
The figures for the YouGov poll at the weekend are now up on the website , as is Peter Kellner's commentary. Interestingly, the full figures are broken down into "One Nation" and "Clear Blue Water" Tories - i.e. the 43% of members who told
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