Every year on St David’s Day, the Welsh national day, BBC Wales publishes an opinion poll covering topical issues in the Principality. While this year’s survey, produced by ICM, focusses heavily on health service issues, the annual constitutional question is once again asked. Last summer’s Brexit vote appears to have had absolutely no […]
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Labour recovers 2 points in ICM / Guardian survey
The UK opposition appears to be off its floor with ICM in the fortnightly poll for The Guardian newspaper out today. Moving up two points to 28 per cent of voting intentions, Labour nonetheless remains a staggering 16 points behind the governing Conservatives. The UK Independence Party loses slips two points, with the […]
Election result: Northern Ireland Assembly 2017
Nationalist party Sinn Fein were the big winners of Thursday’s snap early election to the Stormont Assembly, on the back of increased voter turnout and a financial scandal that had brought down the latest power-sharing administration after just ten months. They advanced to within one seat of the Democratic Unionist Party, and finished just 0.2 […]
UK: 17 point lead for Tories in latest YouGov survey
There is little change in voting intentions in this week’s YouGov poll for The Times, released today. The ruling Conservatives move up one percentage point, widening their lead over Labour (unchanged) to 17 points, equal to the widest gap reported by YouGov so far this year. UKIP sheds one point, with the Lib Dems and […]
DUP set to limit damage in Northern Ireland Assembly snap election
Thursday’s snap election for the Northern Irish Assembly was inevitably going to punish the province’s largest party, the Democratic Unionists, after their First Minister Arlene Foster was tarred with suggestions of scandal around funding a renewable energy scheme. However the second and final opinion poll of the brief campaign, published today by Lucid Talk, shows […]
UK: More Labour misery in monthly ‘Standard’ survey
Yesterday saw the release of Ipsos Mori’s monthly political monitor for London’s Evening Standard newspaper. The results contain further grim tidings for the embattled opposition Labour party. The gap between Conservatives and Labour remains immense at 11 points (40-29) down only marginally from January (43-11). The Liberal Democrats continue to improve, up two […]