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Has the long-term decline in trust finally bottomed out?
It has been a regular finding of both MORI and YouGov research that the public’s trust in members of different professions has been steadily declining for many years. However, the latest survey from...
View Article83% support child benefit cut
A YouGov poll in The Sun this morning has 83% supporting the plans to scrap child benefit for high-rate taxpayers, with only 15% opposing the idea and an astonishingly small 2% who don’t have an...
View ArticleIs there still inequality in the workplace?
Do you think women in Britain have equal job opportunities with men, or not? Men: Yes 51%, No 43% – net +8% Women: Yes 25%, No 63% – net -38% Net scores by political preference: Conservative: 0% Lib...
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Market Research Society rules that it is ethical to poll about false personal...
The Market Research Standards Board (MRSB) has cleared YouGov of all the complaints made about its polling of 16-19 April during the general election – but in so doing has raised a big question about...
View ArticleFairer votes referendum: it needs to be about the voting system, not the...
Contrasting poll results from YouGov and ICM on the AV referendum show how important it is avoid the referendum becoming a vote for or against the government rather than about the merits of the...
View ArticleA reason to be sceptical of what the public tells opinion pollsters
Much can be learnt from opinion polls, but a reminder of why not all results should be taken at face value is this: If there were local council elections in your area on May 5th, how likely would you...
View ArticleOverwhelming public support to end sexism in Royal succession
Last month Nick Clegg took up the issue which Lynne Featherstone and Evan Harris had previously been pushing, namely changing the rules of Royal succession so that men and women are treated equally,...
View ArticleLearning the lessons from last week #2: Lib Dem voters don’t want out of the...
Even after last Thursday, I’ve come across very few Liberal Democrats saying, “we should have made a deal with Labour last May”. That’s not a surprise, given the Parliamentary arithmetic and also all...
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So, why do you like Vince Cable?
Two findings jumped out at me from YouGov’s recent poll of Liberal Democrat members, parts of which Stephen Tall covered last week. One is the similarity in many of the findings between YouGov’s poll...
View ArticleHow the left/right balance of Liberal Democrat voters has changed
It is common to use two political spectrums to sort out where people or parties sit ideologically: the left-right spectrum and the authoritarian-libertarian spectrum. The latter is important in...
View ArticlePeter Kellner’s advice to the Lib Dems: ditch boundary changes, and get a new...
Chairman of polling firm YouGov, Peter Kellner, has a must-read article over at his firm’s site analysing the big challenges facing the Lib Dems at the next election. I know some Lib Dems might baulk...
View ArticleYouGov poll shows huge support for Lib Dem drug policy
Last year’s drug policy debate at conference ended with near-unanimous endorsement of the policy motion “protecting individuals and communities from drug harms“, but since then Liberal Democrats seem...
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Opinion: Exploding the tuition fees polling myth
It is generally assumed knowledge – within the Liberal Democrats as well as in the wider political world – that our party’s poll numbers took a big nosedive right after the coalition government voted...
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Three intriguing opinion poll results that made me go, “Hmm, really?”
Looking through some of YouGov’s recent poll results (as you do on a summer’s evening during the Olympics), a trio of responses struck me as, well, slightly bizarre. See what you think… Lib Dem voters...
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More voters think the Tories have broken their Coalition Agreement promises...
Nick Clegg’s announcement on Monday – that the Lib Dems would end the party’s support for the boundary changes pledged in the Coalition Agreement in response to David Cameron’s failure to persuade his...
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ConHome pushes case for Vince Cable as Lib Dem leader. It’s enough to make...
You’ve gotta love ConservativeHome. No, really. This morning Tim Montgomerie reports a deliciously mischief-making poll from YouGov, commissioned by the Lord Ashcroft-backed site, comparing the...
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David Cameron: the pro-Europeans’ secret weapon
Writing for the European Council on Foreign Relations, YouGov’s Peter Kellner highlights an important polling finding: In July this year, YouGov asked this question: ‘Imagine the British government...
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Majority back same-sex marriage
From the polling published this weekend: Would you support or oppose changing the law to allow same-sex couples to marry? Support: 55% Oppose: 36% Amongst Conservative voters the results are 44% – 49%...
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Three things we’ve learned from today’s opinion polls
Three interesting and important poll findings to report today… Big lead for Labour according to ICM First, the Guardian’s monthly ICM poll is out, showing the biggest Labour lead in almost a decade:...
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Opinion polls yadda yadda. OR “Does Nate Silver mean nothing to you? Did he...
Two new polls last night: the daily YouGov tracker and the first post-local elections poll from Survation. The spread is interesting: Labour: 35% (Survation 39% (YouGov) Conservatives: 24% (S), 31%...
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