The topline voting intention figures in August's YouGov poll for the Telegraph, with changes from last month's figures are CON 38%(nc), LAB 31%(-2), LDEM 18%(nc). The poll supports ICM's findings earlier in the week in regard of the two main parties
The Daily Telegraph today reports the first findings from YouGov's monthly poll for August. In regard of the foiled terrorist plot to blow up airliners, there are no huge surprises. 42% say they are a lot or a little more scared of flying, but the overwhelming majority of
"It would be interesting to know what has happened to the Labour Muslim vote", wrote Neal Lawson at the Guardian's Comment is Free yesterday. Ask and ye shall recieve Neal - the rather surprising answer is that appears to be alive and well. Accurate polls of
After the long summer drought we finally have a voting intention poll. It's been almost a month since the last one, during which time we've had the ceasefire in Lebanon and, probably more significantly for British domestic politics, the arrests of several suspected terrorists in connection
With MORI's monthly figures, I often find myself adding a caveat that their polls do tend to be rather more volatile than their competitors. In the past twelve months MORI has shown two shifts of 11 points in a party's poll rating, one 9 point shift,
In the absence of Tony Blair it was John Reid, not the Deputy Prime Minister, who was the public face of the government after the police foiled a plot to smuggle liquid explosives onto planes last week. Since then various media commentators have speculated that Reid's calm handling
A new YouGov poll for this week's Spectator suggests that British people believe that we are in a world war against Islamic terrorism and we aren't winning it. They are are deeply pessimistic about both how long it will last and how bad it will get.
Monday's Telegraph carries some details from a new YouGov poll for the Telegraph and RSA. The poll suggests that over 90% of people think that drugs are a serious problem today, although 39% of people think that the problem is largely confined to certain neighbourhoods and kinds of
An ICM poll for ebay suggests that 29% of people in the areas affected by the hose pipe ban have flouted it. Of those who had broken the ban (a very small sample this, once you've removed people who don't live in the South-East or haven&
Channel 4 has commissioned a NOP poll of British Muslims for Dispatches. Some of the results are in a pdf here, other questions are included. The Channel 4 website has all the questions here, but with results that differ slightly in places - possibly because they haven't yet
* Opinions of Israel and USA down * Blair's job approval at new low * Popularity boost for Jack Straw after criticism of Israel Below are the latest findings from YouGov's daily political tracker polls, conducted as part of their Brandindex surveys. Opinions of Israel have continued to fall
Those of you who aren't on holiday will have noting the lack of posts - alas, once Westminsiter shuts down for the Summer the media stop conducting polls about what they are up to. There is no Populus poll this month and little else worth commenting on except
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