
Lord Ashcroft: The findings of my 8000 sample poll on Partygate, Johnson, Starmer and politics as the local elections loom
Labour had a slightly higher mean likelihood voting score among voters as a whole than the Conservatives.
Labour had a slightly higher mean likelihood voting score among voters as a whole than the Conservatives.
Nonetheless, MPs need to act now, before his toxicity with voters taints their perceptions of the Party as a whole.
People tend to be risk-averse – one of our focus group participants referred to the “psychic assurance” that the NHS will always be there for them.
The only country that a majority of respondents believe is doing enough to help them is Britain.
In the event of higher bills and a protracted conflict, polls that indicate a potential softening of support may understate it.
Almost a fifth of respondents protested by either abstaining or writing in for Johnson.
The pollster finds the same two future leadership front runners as our survey – but in reverse order.
Our polling suggests that the dissenters’ take on events is seen as deeply eccentric by Tory voters.
The latest wave of an in-depth tracker project shows that a long-term softening of public attitudes has continued during the pandemic.
Most obviously, this complicates their Net Zero strategy; you would have expected fiscal policy increasingly to have rebalanced towards green taxes.
The fall mirrors the slippage in the Conservative rating in the national opinion polls during the past fortnight.
That Switzerland and New Zealand each have their own arrangements suggests that a bespoke arrangement ought to be possible.
It is not is a clear-cut issue, and those that claim it is are doing our public discourse a disservice.
If we impose yet more draconian prison sentences to win a political arms race, the burdens on the taxpayer will become unsustainable.
Polls very strongly suggest the public are much more irritated with the police not enforcing basic rules with greater severity.