The late August Monday public holiday traditionally marks the end of summer in the UK and, after a very light period for opinion polling, the pollsters are straight back into action today with twin surveys issued by YouGov and ICM. Both show that the minority ruling Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party are running neck […]
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Labour still leads in UK, Corbyn falls back
Pollster Opinium has published its first UK voting intention survey for seven weeks for this Sunday’s Observer newspaper, with little real change to report over the holiday period. Small movements each way combine to halve the Labour opposition’s lead over the minority governing Conservatives from six to three points, but overall the changes in party […]
Final polling for the UK General Election
Today’s parliamentary election in Britain will be something of a test for the nation’s embattled opinion polling companies. In part this is due to past perceived ‘failures’ at the 2015 General Election and the 2016 referendum on Brexit. But it is also due to the extraordinary swings in voting intention reported during the six week […]
Extraordinary first week of UK campaign polling
If Theresa May’s decision last Tuesday to call a UK General Election was a surprise, the eight days since have continued to shock in opinion polling terms. The already enormous leads enjoyed by the ruling Conservatives have somehow grown further, the UK Independence Party’s support has tumbled, and the Labour Party is under threat in […]
May widens personal lead yet further
Perhaps Britain’s opinion researchers and their media clients are getting bored with tediously large Conservative leads over Labour – the flow of voting intention polls has slowed almost to a trickle. YouGov’s survey for The Times newspaper released today is only the second such poll of April: its findings once again show an enormous government […]
Another shocking poll for Labour in wake of UK Budget
The first opinion poll researched after this Wednesday’s annual Budget announcement is another deeply depressing one for the opposition Labour Party. The ruling Conservatives advance two points to hit 44 per cent, their best score with YouGov since the early sunlit days of the Tory/Lib Dem coalition back in August 2010. With Labour unmoved, the […]