Last month Chris Elliot, the Guardian's readers' editor, quoted a letter from a reader saying there "seemed to be a cultural problem among Guardian reporters that it is of no consequence if you completely misunderstand or mis-report the figures in a story [...] I hope that you
The full tabs for the YouGov/Sunday Times poll are now online here. The budget questions were all largely unsurprising - the mansion tax remains very popular (75% support on £2m houses), as is increasing the personal tax allowance and cutting fuel duty. People also continue to support the ending
Tonight's YouGov/Sunday Times poll has topline figures of CON 38%, LAB 40%, LDEM 10% - very much in line with the average Labour lead of around about 1 point that YouGov have been showing in recent weeks. As usual, I'll do a proper update tomorrow
This is an updated version of a post from way back before the 2010 election, which I felt needed another airing. Thankfully comments along these lines don't turn up very often in the comments here, but I see them with depressing frequency on Twitter when poll results are
Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 39% LAB 38% LDEM 10%. So far this week the YouGov daily polls have shown two 1 point Conservative leads, a 2 point Labour lead and a 4 point Labour lead, so still averaging out at a
The Guardian's report on their poll this month has made the assumption that a drop in Conservative support is due to NHS policy, various other commentators have this morning jumped to the same conclusion. The truth is, as ever, rather more complex than that. Firstly we should set
We could have several polls tonight, given most of last month's polls ended up being conducted over the same weekend. The first one out is ICM's monthly poll for the Guardian. Last month's Guardian poll had shown a Tory lead of five points, this
I didn't get chance yesterday to do a full rundown of the Sunday Times poll, so with full tabs long since up, here are a couple of things worth noting. 1) The problems of the new child benefit rules. The principle of withdrawing child benefit from households with
Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sunday Times has topline figures of CON 37%, LAB 41%, LDEM 7%, Others 15%. It's a four point lead for Labour and a very low score for the Lib Dems, the lowest since last month. Normal caveats apply, it could the
There is a new ComRes poll in the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Mirror tomorrow, if I recall correctly it's only the second non-YouGov of February given that all the other companies' fieldwork dates seem to have started clustering towards the end of the month. Topline figures,
Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 39%, LAB 39%, LDEM 9%. We seem to have settled into a rather steady picture of the two main parties around about neck-and-neck, though my impression is we've seen the inklings of a slow drift
Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 40%, LAB 39%, LDEM 9%, a one point Conservative lead. This follows yesterday's poll which had a four point Labour lead. The two main parties still appear to be pretty much neck-and-neck in YouGov'
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