YouGov was one of the sponsors of the Edinburgh Festival last month and carried out various polls for tv industry discussion sessions. There were about six altogether - you can see them all on the YouGov website here - but are mostly, well, the sort of thing that TV executives
Hot on the heels of the ASH survey last month which suggested that people support a smoking ban in pubs, Forest have commissioned a Populus poll to show they don’t. As I showed last week, the different is all in how the question is presented - if you give
As you’ll have no doubt spotted from the copious library footage of cigar-smoking fat men in fedoras on the news bulletins, Ken Clarke has lumbered into the ring to contest the Conservative leadership again. You can’t be a perennial Conservative leadership contender for a decade without having had
Last night I reported YouGov’s findings on abortion and the use of embryos for research - today I’ll cover the rest of the poll, which examined stem-cell research, cloning, euthanasia and “designer babies”. As you might have noticed, the stem cell question on the Telegraph’s table doesn’
Though it wasn’t published in the Telegraph, the YouGov poll on abortion, medical ethics and so on also included YouGov’s monthly political tracker questions (the figures should be up on the YouGov website shortly). The topline voting intention figures, with changes from last month, were CON 33%(+2)
Today’s Telegraph carried an extensive YouGov poll on abortion, embryo research and related topics. There were a couple of polls on abortion earlier this year when Michael Howard indicated he wouild favour a tighter time limit on abortion. They showed that somewhere between a quarter and a third of
There is a little press release spat going on between the Tobacco Manufacturers Association and ASH, the anti-smoking pressure group over a poll published by ASH earlier this week. The poll, carried out by the BMRB, claimed to show that 73% of people would support a complete ban on smoking
The ICM poll on faith schools which I covered yesterday has now turned up on the front page of the Guardian. The Guardian obviously highlights the finding that two thirds of people apparantly oppose faith schools - it isn’t actually that clear cut though. The question gave people a
As well as the poll on history, there was a second YouGov poll in today’s Telegraph covering people’s satisfaction with their GPs. The Telegraph’s report headlined the fact that only 44% of respondents said they had always been able to see a GP within 2 working days,
There are four new polls in today's papers; first up we have ICM's monthly poll for the Guardian. This is actually the same poll that the figures on A-Levels were drawn from last week, the second half was simply held back to fill more of those
Today's Telegraph reports a YouGov poll on how much people know about British history, or more specifically, the three major historical events whose anniversaries have been commemorated this year - VE day, VJ day and the Battle of Trafalgar. The poll was actually carried out at the tail
Following the details of the IPCC investigation into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, leaked earlier this week, there is a new BPIX poll in today's Mail on Sunday. When it first emerged that Mr de Menezes was not a terrorist public support for the "shoot
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