YouGov on Libya
The tables for YouGov's weekly poll for the Sunday Times are now up here. Most of the poll covers the situation in Libya and how Britain should respond. Asked how David Cameron has respondened so far the public give a broadly negative reaction - 32% think he has done well, 48% badly.
There is strong support for applying economic sanctions - 69% would support them with only 16% opposed - and majority support for a no-fly zone (56% suport, 25% oppose). However, there is very little support for either direct military intervention by British troops, or indirect military intervention by arming the Libyan rebels (only 11% and 12% respectively would support). What support there is for limited military action against Libya is conditional upon UN approval - 52% of people would support limited military action (such as enforcing a no-fly zone) with UN approval, only 9% without.
Asked what fate Gaddafi should face if his regime falls, 61% now think he should be tried by the International Criminal Court (up from 54% last week), people remain roughly split over whether a new Libyan regime would be justified in execting Gaddafi (31% think they would be, 34% that they would not be).
Asked about Britain's relationship with Libya over the last decade people remain quite evenly divided over whether the detente was the right or wrong thing to do. 37% think it was right to open positive diplomatic relations, 35% that it was wrong. 30% think it was a genuine attempt to encourage reform in Libya, 45% that it was putting economics before human rights.
On the specific issue of the LSE's acceptance of Libyan money, people were also rather evenly divided. 43% thought it was wrong for the LSE to take money from someone so close to the Gaddafi regime, but 36% thought it was acceptable given Libya seemed to be reforming at the time. Asked what they should do with the money, almost a third (31%) think they should just keep it - they need the money. 18% think it should be spent on scholarships for Libyan students, 27% given to chairty.
Finally on the subject of Libya YouGov asked about the defence cuts in the context of the Libyan situtation - did people think the proposed cuts would leave Britan unable to properly react to such situations in the future? 9% think they would not, 25% think they would, but that it is unavoidable, 45% that the cuts would leave Britain unable to properly react and should be reversed.
