The Times this morning had new polling on the junior doctors strike (the fieldwork was completed shortly before the strike later this month was called off). It shows that more of the public support the strike than oppose it, but only just, and that support has fallen significantly since earlier
Tomorrow's Times has a new YouGov poll of the Labour leadership electorate (party members from before the cut-off date, trade union affiliates and £25 registered supporters) showing Jeremy Corbyn with a robust lead over Owen Smith. Topline voting intentions excluding don't knows are Corbyn 62%, Smith
I'll be taking a break from the blog over the next week while I have a summer rest (I may pop in if something interesting happens, but I'm going to try not to), but before I go a quick pointer to something I wrote over on
Ipsos MORI have released their monthly political monitor. It's their first poll since Theresa May became Prime Minister, so the changes since last month show the same honeymoon boost we've seen in other companies' figures. Topline figures are CON 45%(+9), LAB 34%(-1), LDEM
Labour's performance in polls and in mid-term elections has become a political football – not just the usual rather routine spinning of parties saying how well they are doing, but a key faultline in Labour's internal leadership battle. A key argument of Jeremy Corbyn's critics
A wrote a few weeks ago that in the past the boost enjoyed by a Prime Minister taking over mid-term has often only lasted a month or so. The latest YouGov poll suggests that Theresa May's honeymoon is following the same pattern and has now started to fade.
YouGov's latest voting intention figures in the Times this morning are CON 42%(+2), LAB 28%(nc), LDEM 8%(nc), UKIP 12%(-1), GRN 3%(-1). The changes since last week are not significant in themselves, but push the Conservatives to a fourteen point lead, the largest from
Over on the YouGov website I've written about an experiment we did looking at how the votes might fall in the event that the Labour party did split (the tabs are here). As I say in the article, this needs a thousand caveats - in what proportions has
YouGov released a new Scottish poll last night, their first poll on Scottish Independence since the EU referendum. Voting intention in another Independence referendum stands at YES 47%(+1), NO 53%(-1). Changes are from May and don't suggest any significant difference from before the EU referendum (tabs
New party leaders normally enjoy a honeymoon in the polls. It's noticeable for leaders taking over in opposition, on the relatively rare occassion that the party leadership changes hands in government the honeymoon is often remarkable. In the last fifty years there have been three previous occasions when
There is a new Opinium poll in the Observer with topline figures of CON 37%(+3), LAB 31%(+2), LDEM 6%(-1), UKIP 15%(-2), GRN 4%(nc) - changes are from a month ago. The Conservatives have a healthy lead, but not the sort of big honeymoon lead that
Almost a month on from the referendum campaign I've had chance to sit down and collect my thoughts about how the polls performed. This isn't necessarily a post about what went wrong since, as I wrote on the weekend after the referendum, for many pollsters nothing
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