YouGov/Sunday Times: full report
A little later than intended, here's a full update on the weekly YouGov poll for the Sunday Times, full tabs for which are now up here. This week's poll covered the Eurozone, immigration and border control, Iran and the upcoming teachers' strike.
On the Euro, YouGov mostly repeated the Eurozone questions asked for the last couple of weeks. Despite the developing story and contagion moving from Greece to Italy, British public opinion has not much changed. The overwhelmingly majority of people (84%) think it is important for Britain's economy that the Eurozone debt crisis is solved, but a majority (55%) still think that Britain should not contribute any money towards a bailout. 60% of people think that Greece should be made to leave the Eurozone, compared to 17% who think it should be allowed to remain. For Italy, 45% think it should be made to leave the Eurozone, 29% think Italy should stay.
Turning to immigration and border control, 52% of people think that Theresa May is wrong to blame the relaxation of controls upon civil servants and 56% of people think she should resign (though to some degree this is partisan - amongst Tory voters 38% think she should resign, 49% think she should stay).
On the broader issue of immigration, there is widespread support for Cameron's stated aim of reducing immigration to "tens of thousands", supported by 78% of people. However, there is little faith in his ability to deliver on it. 75% of people think it unlikely he will deliver. The Conservatives are ahead of Labour on the party people most trust on immigration, but only narrowly: 18% to 13%. When YouGov
normally ask this question they give just the main parties, and the Conservatives normally have a big lead over Labour. This poll gave people the choice of the minor parties too, and found 9% of people who said they most trusted the BNP on immigration and 7% UKIP, both ahead of the Lib Dems. 38% of people said they did not trust any party on immigration.
Moving to the issue of Iran, 67% of people think Iran probably is trying to develop a nuclear weapon, compared to just 7% who think they are not. Around two-thirds of people would support further sanctions upon Iran to prevent them developing weapons, but only 30% would support military action by the US or Israel to destroy their nuclear programme.
Finally, on the teachers strikes 55% of people oppose headteachers going on strike (37% support them), 53% of people oppose teachers going on strike (37% support them). The poll shows support for the strike marginally lower than it was before the last strike in June, when YouGov found 40% support and 49% opposition, but the question itself was slightly different, so I would be cautious of concluding that support is dropping.
