...and yet lower. Support for ID cards falls again

The latest YouGov poll shows support for ID cards falling even further. Back in 2003, when YouGov asked an identically worded question they found 78% of people supported “the introduction of a system of national identity cards in Britain”. Polls by various companies during 2004 found support around the 70-80%

Wake up and smell the coffee

“If I were a rich man, daidle deedle daidle…” Even as someone who runs a website on opinion polls, I doubt if I had £750,000 burning a hole in my pocket I would blow the lot on commissioning opinion polls. Still, much to my delight Lord Ashcroft has done

Sunday Opening

There is currently an interesting discussion on whether the Conservative party should support or oppose further deregulation of Sunday opening hours on Tim Montgomerie’s Conservative Home. Rather conveniently, there is also a new ICM poll asking about exactly the same thing. 66% of people told ICM they regularly went

Populus poll on religion

A new Populus poll on religious and faith issues is being published in the Sun this week - links to the Sun die very quickly, so I can’t offer you a link. 70% of people told Populus they believed in God or some form of higher power. This is

MORI poll on the EU Constitution

There is a new MORI poll in today’s Sun on the EU constitution - the first question asked was the exact wording of the government’s proposed referendum - “Should the United Kingdom approve the treaty establishing a constitution for the European Union?”. In past surveys, using the straight

YouGov Poll for the Centre for Social Justice

YouGov have carried out a new poll for Iain Duncan Smith’s think tank, the Centre for Policy Justice, dealing with the future direction of the Conservative party. The poll firstly asks if respondents might consider voting Conservative at the next election - 42% say they might, technically enough to

PR, the EU Constitution and the Tory Leadership

There have been no voting intention opinion polls since the election, and they would be pretty meaningless anyway - until there is a new leader for the Conservative party they are not going to give much of an indication of how the parties stand. There have been a few political