According the media the Tory party conference was a triumph for David Cameron and a disaster for David Davis. Until now though there has been no way of knowing whether the views of Tory activists in the conference hall would be replicated by Conservative party members across the country, or
2005 French Referendum on EU Constitution Survey End Date Oui (%) Non (%) Net CSA 16/05/05 49 51 -2 Ipsos 14/05/05 49 51 -2 Ifop 13/05/05 46 54 -8 TNS Sofres 12/05/05 47 53 -6 TNS Sofres 10/05/05 52 48
With Michael Howard's resignation letter due to land on Michael Spicer's desk on Friday the Conservative leadership election has now really begun, the country having endured a sort of phoney leadership election for the last five months. During that time almost every week has brought a
Earlier this week the EU agreed to start membership talks with Turkey. Turkish entry raises a number of questions - Turkey would be the first country with a mainly Muslim population to join the EU, and the majority of its area is in Asia, rather than Europe. There are also
ICM's website has a new poll on taxation, carried out on behalf of Reform. As part of a wider study looking at flat tax schemes they asked about taxation in general, and about where people think the tax bands should be drawn. The first batch of questions concentrated
YouGov's monthly poll is in this morning's Telegraph. The topline figures, for what little they are worth during the Conservative party's leadership interregnum, are CON 32% LAB 40% LDEM 20%. The poll also included a wide range of Conservative party questions in advance of
There is an ICM study in today's Guardian which, like the YouGov poll in last week's Spectator, tries to get round the fact that some of the Conservative leadership candidates are very unfamiliar to the public by giving respondents information about the candidates before asking questions.
There have been several polls covering Iraq since the clash between British forces and Iraqi police in Basra last month. There was a BPIX poll in last week's Mail on Sunday, an ICM poll in last week's Sunday Express, another ICM poll in the Guardian and
Earlier this week the Government was defeated at the Labour party conference over their plans for more private sector involvement in the NHS. Although the anti-government motion was actually opposed by a majority of Labour's constituency party delegates, it passed because the trade unions backed it almost unaminously.
Every poll of the general public so far has shown Ken Clarke to be the most popular candidate for the Conservative leadership. Every poll asking how people would vote with various potential Tory leaders has shown that Clarke would put on the most votes. However, every such poll has also
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The second conference of the season, and a fresh round of conference polls. Populus and ICM both have new polls in this mornings papers. Populus's poll looked at whether or not Tony Blair has managed to permanently change the public image of the Labour party. While we'
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