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Fifty shades of grey voters. Corbyn’s punishing polling with older voters.

Fifty shades of grey voters. Corbyn’s punishing polling with older voters.

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Corbyn is doing worse with older voters, and history shows older voters turn out to vote and are a growing demographic. A few weeks ago whilst looking at the polling entrails I was struck by how much of a lead with older voters Mrs May was developing over Jeremy Corbyn in the best Prime Minister polling. As we can see with the chart above, there’s a clear correlation with the older you get, the more you prefer Mrs May as…

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Theresa May is still the only politician with a net favourable rating with the voters YouGov finds

Theresa May is still the only politician with a net favourable rating with the voters YouGov finds

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YouGov’s latest favourable ratings follows the pattern from the end of November where Mrs May is the only politician with a net positive rating, her lead over Mr Corbyn has widened from 40% at the end of November to 46% now, mostly because Mr Corbyn’s ratings have moved from minus 35% to minus 40%, for this Labour leader it appears things can’t get only better for him and his party. The only positive Labour and Team Corbyn can glean is…

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Analysing the best PM polling – is it as good for Theresa as it appears?

Analysing the best PM polling – is it as good for Theresa as it appears?

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Graphic: The most recent YouGov polling on who would make the best PM It has become a regular occurrence.  At least once a month, YouGov release an opinion poll.  Each recent month, the Conservatives have recorded a very comfortable lead over Labour.  And each month, Theresa May has recorded an enormous lead over Jeremy Corbyn in the public’s assessment of who would be the best Prime Minister.  This has widely been taken to mean that the Conservatives’ position is even…

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New entrant Ed Balls moves immediately to 3rd place in latest YouGov favourability ratings

New entrant Ed Balls moves immediately to 3rd place in latest YouGov favourability ratings

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Both Theresa May & Corbyn see drops Here they are – the latest YouGov favourability ratings, the polling where the site has chosen who/what should be included. The first time we did this was in August and since then all the UK politicians have seen net drops. Ed Balls, included after his Strictly successes, was not part of the August list. In the summer TMay was still enjoying her honeymoon and had a net +12%. That’s now down to +5%…

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Who should we include in the next PB/YouGov Favourability ratings?

Who should we include in the next PB/YouGov Favourability ratings?

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In August PB was able to have its own YouGov favourability ratings. I am pleased to say that we are now in a position to go forward with a similar survey. Last time we had:- Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Angela Merkel Conservative Party Labour Party Liberal Democrats UKIP SNP Theresa May Boris Johnson David Davis Phillip Hammond Jeremy Corbyn Tim Farron David Cameron MPs generally Your MP Clearly some of these are no longer relevant although…

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Analysis: Corbyn has the worst end first year satisfaction ratings of any LAB leader in opposition

Analysis: Corbyn has the worst end first year satisfaction ratings of any LAB leader in opposition

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Brown, who was of course PM, had the largest negative numbers This last week has marked the first anniversary of Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party and I thought it worth checking the standing of other LAB leaders at this stage. As can been seen from the chart Gordon Brown was doing worse but of those who were in opposition Corbyn’s numbers are the worst. Interestingly the LAB leader with the best ratings was, of course, Tony Blair and he…

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Mrs. May’s new PM ratings honeymoon is bigger than Thatcher’s, Cameron’s or Brown’s, but smaller than Major or Blair

Mrs. May’s new PM ratings honeymoon is bigger than Thatcher’s, Cameron’s or Brown’s, but smaller than Major or Blair

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Putting the current ratings numbers into a historical context With a lot of the non-LAB leadership politics discussion being on May’s polling honeymoon I thought I’d look back at the old MORI ratings to see how other new PM’s were doing at this stage in their occupancy of Number 10. To its great credit Ipsos MORI keeps excellent historical records and has a whole section devoted to old polling data. So compiling the above has been easy. Interestingly Mrs. Thatcher…

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