The Tory lead has been trimmed slightly in today’s YouGov survey for The Sunday Times but we should remember that Labour also received a temporary boost after Tony Blair’s last resignation speech – in October 2006 at the Labour conference. In the immediate afterglow of Thursday’s resignation, 49% thought Tony Blair had been a good […]
A YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph shows the Tory lead down from 8% to 5% (compared with the most recent YouGov poll – for The Sunday Times). In line with other recent surveys the LibDems are up – a strengthening that probably reflects the energy of their council candidates rather than a new affection […]
A few days before a massive test of popular opinion I’m not sure we learn a great deal from these polls but an ICM poll in today’s Guardian shows a reduced Tory lead and that all that door-to-door work by Ming’s minions has pushed the LibDems up to 21%. Conservatives desperately need Ming as LibDem […]
It’s back to the days of Michael Foot for Labour. A Communicate Research survey for The Independent puts Labour down 4% to just 27% – their lowest level since 1983. Labour also fall below 30% for the first time in ConservativeHome’s poll of polls. Communicate Research suggests that Tory supporters are most likely to actually […]
Cameron defends Party after Scottish opinion polls: "Tory leader David Cameron today dismissed poll findings suggesting his party is going nowhere in the Holyrood election campaign. He insisted the Tories were running "a very positive campaign" and said: "I don’t make predictions." And Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie said she was "relatively relaxed" about the […]
A Populus poll for The Times shows the Tories maintaining an 8% lead over Labour although both parties are down 1% on last month. The Times also found that the Tory lead would widen to 11% if Gordon Brown was Labour leader (a fall from last month’s 13% lead). The Labour disadvantage would be 12% […]
The Conservatives enjoy the support of 27% of young urban professionals, compared with 17% and 16% for the LibDems and Labour respectively. The Metro newspaper’s poll of 5000 city-living professionals aged 18 to 44 years, found a majority of them believe that "the country had gone downhil|" in the last five years. Not surprisingly they […]
A YouGov survey for this morning’s Sunday Times finds that Gordon Brown’s standing has suffered from the pensions tax revelations of the last week. In the light of those revelations only 27% thought he was fit to be Prime Minister. 57% said he was not. The overall Tory lead in the survey is 8% (up […]
After all the excitement on this blog over the last 24 hours about Scotland… An ITV Wales poll finds that the Tories are set to become the second largest party after next month’s elections to the Cardiff Assembly. These are the voting intentions of those who describe themselves as "certain to vote": Labour: 36% (40% […]
This morning’s YouGov survey for The Daily Telegraph gives the Conservatives a 7% advantage over Labour. It also confirms Wednesday’s Times/ Populus survey and its suggestion that the SNP is clearly set to become Scotland’s biggest party after May 3rd. "On the “forced choice” question, asking if people would prefer a Labour government under Gordon […]
A Communicate Research poll for tomorrow’s Independent puts the Tory lead down to 35% to 31% compared to 40% to 29% last month. The LibDems are up 3% to 20%. A rogue poll? 9am update (28/3): "Communicate Research, it should be said, has built up a reputation for turbulence and unlike all the other pollsters […]
Since the Budget and the Conservative Party Spring Forum the Tory lead has grown by 2% according to YouGov. The Telegraph didn’t even mention the LibDems – who are down again to just 15%. 46% of those surveyed for The Daily Telegraph agreed that the Budget was not fair. Only 34% thought that it was […]
"Brown as leader would be gift to Tories" is the headline in tomorrow’s Guardian above a poll that puts the Tories 15% ahead should Brown succeed Blair. The Tory lead is 10% – with Tories on 41% – with Blair as leader. I’m off to watch Man Utd’s FA Cup replay now. More thoughts at […]
I heard Peter Kellner of YouGov on Radio 4’s World This Weekend earlier and he contended that today’s Tory YouGov poll lead of 6% was quite modest given that we were in the middle of a parliament. I happen to agree that the Conservative advantage (9% in the ConservativeHome Poll of Polls) is a little […]
Both the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Times have surveys on voter attitudes to green taxation. The idea of such taxation gets a big thumbs down but David Cameron is – overall – seen as greener than Gordon Brown and the headline Tory lead over Labour is intact at 6% (YouGov) and 7% (BPIX for […]