As most readers of this blog will know, the Labour leadership is decided by an electoral college made up of MPs, party members and levy-paying members of trade unionists affiliated to the Labour party. A YouGov poll in Monday's Telegraph polls two of those three groups - party
Polls all round. ICM's monthly Scottish poll ahead of the May elections has constituency voting intentions of CON 16%(+3), LAB 29%(-2), LDEM 16%(-1), SNP 34%(+1) and regional voting intentions of CON 15%(+1), LAB 28%(+1), LDEM 17%(nc), SNP 32%(-1). Using Weber
Communicate Research's monthly poll for the Independent has topline voting intentions, with changes from last month, of CON 40%(+6), LAB 29%(nc), LDEM 17%(-4). The poll was conducted between the 23rd and 25th February. On a uniform swing the eleven point lead would be enough to
The second part of YouGov's monthly poll for the Telegraph shows widespread hostility towards the idea of road charging. The poll found that, while most people thought that traffic congestion on the roads near them was becoming more serious, only 7% thought it was a very serious problem,
YouGov's monthly poll for the Telegraph shows a pretty much static position across the board. Headline voting intentions with changes from YouGov's most recent poll are CON 37% (nc), LAB 32% (nc), LDEM 17% (-1). The poll was conducted between February the 19th and 21st. In
The Guardian's monthly ICM poll has headline voting intentions (with changes from the last ICM poll) of CON 40%(+3), LAB 31%(nc), LDEM 19%(-4). The poll was conducted between February 16th and 18th, so after the media coverage of David Cameron using cannabis at school. The
Populus conducted a snap poll of 522 on Tuesday in response to the revelations over the weekend that David Cameron admitted using cannabis while at school. 81% of people said it didn't matter that Cameron had taken cannabis at university and there was even higher support for Cameron&
The Conservatives now have a consistent lead in the opinion polls. ICM, Populus and YouGov have all shown a Conservative lead since back in April. The response to each poll from the Labour party (and from more sage and cautious Conservatives) is to wonder whether the Conservatives have achieved the
A YouGov poll in today's Sunday Times has the parties largely static - the topline voting intentions with changes from the last YouGov poll in the Telegraph are CON 37% (-1), LAB 32% (+1), LDEM 18% (nc). The poll was conducted between the 8th and 9th February. On
Populus' February poll for the Times has topline voting intention figures, with changes from last month, of CON 36% (-3), LAB 33% (+1), LDEM 19% (+1). After unusally good figures for the Conservatives in January this is in line with most of the voting intention figures produced by Populus
The Sunday Express's front page reports a new ICM poll asking if Tony Blair should now step down. The poll includes questions on the casino decision and the investigation into loans-for-honours which I'll look at when the actual tables appear on ICM's website. Until
MORI's January poll has topline figures, with changes from last month, of CON 39%(+2), LAB 35%(-1), LDEM 19%(+1). The poll was conducted between the 19th and 29th January. The unusually long fieldwork period is a hangover from the takeover of MORI by Ipsos last year,
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