Last night I reported YouGov’s findings on abortion and the use of embryos for research - today I’ll cover the rest of the poll, which examined stem-cell research, cloning, euthanasia and “designer babies”. As you might have noticed, the stem cell question on the Telegraph’s table doesn’
Though it wasn’t published in the Telegraph, the YouGov poll on abortion, medical ethics and so on also included YouGov’s monthly political tracker questions (the figures should be up on the YouGov website shortly). The topline voting intention figures, with changes from last month, were CON 33%(+2)
Today’s Telegraph carried an extensive YouGov poll on abortion, embryo research and related topics. There were a couple of polls on abortion earlier this year when Michael Howard indicated he wouild favour a tighter time limit on abortion. They showed that somewhere between a quarter and a third of
There is a little press release spat going on between the Tobacco Manufacturers Association and ASH, the anti-smoking pressure group over a poll published by ASH earlier this week. The poll, carried out by the BMRB, claimed to show that 73% of people would support a complete ban on smoking
The ICM poll on faith schools which I covered yesterday has now turned up on the front page of the Guardian. The Guardian obviously highlights the finding that two thirds of people apparantly oppose faith schools - it isn’t actually that clear cut though. The question gave people a
As well as the poll on history, there was a second YouGov poll in today’s Telegraph covering people’s satisfaction with their GPs. The Telegraph’s report headlined the fact that only 44% of respondents said they had always been able to see a GP within 2 working days,
There are four new polls in today's papers; first up we have ICM's monthly poll for the Guardian. This is actually the same poll that the figures on A-Levels were drawn from last week, the second half was simply held back to fill more of those
Today's Telegraph reports a YouGov poll on how much people know about British history, or more specifically, the three major historical events whose anniversaries have been commemorated this year - VE day, VJ day and the Battle of Trafalgar. The poll was actually carried out at the tail
Following the details of the IPCC investigation into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, leaked earlier this week, there is a new BPIX poll in today's Mail on Sunday. When it first emerged that Mr de Menezes was not a terrorist public support for the "shoot
Earlier this year the FIA commissioned a survey of Formula One fans, carried out through their website. The results were published at the British Grand Prix last month. Bear in mind that it was a self-selected survey (though given that it covered 180 countries, it would have been difficult to
Today’s Telegraph has the first poll since the London bombings, the opportunity we have to actually gauge people’s reaction to Thursday’s terror. The public response to terrorist atrocities is unpredictable - following 9/11 the American people rallied round President Bush - his approval ratings went from
Unlike Live Aid, which aimed to actually raise money for Africa, the proported purpose of the Live 8 concerts at the weekend was to raise the profile of African poverty, force the issue onto the agenda at the G8 summit and thereby to pressure the G8 countries to take action.
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