Yesterday I said I hoped we would get some voting intention polls that would help us judge how the PBR had actually gone down. Today we have no fewer than 3 new voting intention polls, but are none the wiser as to what effect the PBR had on Labour support
I'm expecting at least one new poll tonight (from ComRes in the Sunday Indy), and with luck there will be others too. Feel free to use this thread to discuss them.
I've been busy today, so have only just had time to catch up with the Populus snap poll of 500 on the PBR in this morning's Times. Almost all of the individual measures in the PBR received strong support - 78% supported the bankers bonus tax,
There is a new AngusReid poll for politicalbetting.. The topline figures, with changes from their previous poll, are CON 40%(+1), LAB 23%(+1), LDEM 19%(-2), Others 18%. It was conducted between Tuesday and Thursday, and according to Mike about a third of it was conducted after the PBR.
Over on Political Betting someone accidentally linked to last month's Populus tables thinking they were for today's poll. However, in doing so they've highlighted a fascinating question that I missed at the time. In last month's survey Populus found that 53% of
Populus's monthly poll for the Times has topline figures, with changes from last month, of CON 38%(-1), LAB 30%(+1), LDEM 20%(+2). While viewed as a single poll the changes are not particular significant, it echoes the trend seen in almost all the recent polls of
There is a Populus poll due tonight. I've not seen any figures from it yet, but when it appears feel free to discuss it here. I'll update later on. UPDATE: As readers will probably know, the figures are CON 38%(-1), LAB 30%(+1), LDEM 20%
It's another one for John Rentoul's "Questions to which the answer is no". An article by Sam Coates in the Times says that "Labour’s election planners believe an 8-point gap between the current party of Government and the Tories can be closed.
The BBC World Service have a Globescan poll of attitudes towards climate change in 23 different countries. In each country they asked how serious a problem people thought climate change was, and whether people supported action to address it "even if it hurts the economy". I'm
As promised there are two new polls tonight. YouGov for the Sunday Times have topline figures of CON 40%(+1), LAB 27%(-2), LDEM 18%(-1). The second poll is by ICM in the Sunday Telegraph; their topline figures are CON 40%(-2), LAB 29%(nc), LDEM 19%(nc). So
I've no confirmation of any polls tonight, but CCHQ's Henry Macrory has tweeted that there will be two, one in the Sunday Telegraph (so almost certainly ICM) and one elsewhere, averaging a lead of 12 points. I can't vouch for either. ICM's
Ipsos MORI have put up the tables for their poll in the Sunday Times at the weekend and it turns out we have some voting intention figures. Voting intention in Westminster, with changes from MORI's last Scottish voting intention poll in August, are CON 15%(-3), LAB 32%
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