What’s striking about the Maria Miller polling is that CON voters are as hostile to her as everyone else
Dominating the Mail on Sunday front page is report of Survation poll on Maria Miller pic.twitter.com/INWm0ltjXo
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 6, 2014
The Mail on Sunday ratchets up the pressure on Maria Miller
Very often the most important factor in polling is not the data but how it is used. There can be few better examples than today’s Mail on Sunday coverage of its Maria Miller polling. The paper, like the Telegraph and the Times yesterday, is after her and Miller’s survival chances won’t be helped.
The key numbers from the Survation poll are in the chart. Generally whenever a politician comes under pressure and we get questions like this then the polling is split on party lines. Those sampled tend to respond in line with their allegiance and are generally less ready to condemn one of their own than the public as a whole.
Not so with the Miller numbers. On two of the three questions Tory voters are more hostile than the overall sample.
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Even the question here about Cameron standing by her sees CON voters being more harsh than the overall sample.
I can’t recall this ever happening before and that can only add to the pressure on the culture secretary.
If this media pressure is maintained then it won’t be long, surely, before she’s gone.