Party Leaders Best Prime Minister MORI: Who do you think would make the most capable Prime Minister — Mr Blair/Brown, Mr Howard/Cameron or Mr Kennedy/Sir Menzies Campbell? ICM: Which of the three main party leaders would make the best Prime Minister? YouGov: Who would make the best Prime
Tax Party preference on Taxation YouGov: (1) Which party would best handle each of these problems? Taxation (2) And who would you trust more to take the right decisions on each of the following issues…? A Conservative government lead by David Cameron/A Labour government lead by Gordon Brown. Survey
The Times’s report on Populus’s conference polls at the weekend included a question asking people to put themselves on a left/right scale, ICM did a similar thing on Monday in the Guardian, and the Times also referred to a YouGov poll published in a paper by Peter
ICM regularly carry out polls for Retail Week, and you’ll regularly not find me mentioning them since they deal with exciting things like how often you shop at Primark. The most recent one is more interesting however, dealing with question of whether or not people agree with the EU
The Times today has the first installment of its Populus Conference poll, this week covering the Liberal Democrats. There was also a small ICM poll on the Liberal Democrats on yesterday’s Politics Show, and a more extensive ICM poll in today’s Guardian. Populus’s poll shows, as usual,
As well as the questions on the Lib Dems, covered in the article above, ICM’s latest poll also had some surprising figures on Gordon Brown and Ken Clarke. The poll suggests that, with Clarke and Brown as party leaders the Conservatives would fall back very slightly (almost exacly echoing
Yesterday’s YouGov poll in the Sunday Times actually included quite a lot of questions about President Bush, far more than the two reported in the paper. I think it’s fair to say that the British public are not over-enamoured of him. The overwhelming majority of respondents thought that
Today’s Sunday Times has a new YouGov poll which again compares how people would vote with Davis or Clarke as Tory leader. While it echoes Populus’s recent poll in showing that Clarke would perform better than Davis, unlike Populus it suggests that both potential leaders would trail a
There is a new Communicate Research poll in the Indy on Sunday - just one question, a “forced choice” between a Clarke-led Conservative party and a Brown-led Labour party. 44% of respondents went for Labour, while 25% went for the Tories. In the Indy on Sunday’s report John Rentoul
Up until now Ken Clarke has been the favoured candidate amongst the general public, but amongst party members - who may yet end up making the final decision if Michael Howard’s reforms are rejected - David Davis has been in the lead. Ken Clarke was soundly defeated in the
There are more details from Populus’s latest poll in today’s Times. The fun bit is a question that asked people how they would vote in a General Election if Labour was led by Gordon Brown, and the Conservatives were led by either Ken Clarke, or David Davis. With
Ken Clarke’s official entry into the Conservative leadership race has predictably lead to some new polls. There was a new ICM poll on yesterday’s Newsnight, and this morning’s Times carries a new Populus poll. Both polls found - as all previous polls have - that Ken Clarke
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