But before David Cameron gets too excited, his ratings from the previous week remain unchanged, it was Ed Miliband’s ratings that slipped back, so Ed couldn’t maintain his lead for a fourth week. Cameron net rating minus 26 (nc from last week) Miliband net rating minus 28 (minus 5 from last week) Clegg net rating minus 55 (nc from last week) It will be interesting to see what the Ipsos-Mori ratings will show later on this month. But given recent…
The Leadership scores David Cameron is on minus 26 (minus 30 last week) Ed Miliband is on minus 23 (minus 27 last week) Nick Clegg is on minus 55 (minus 56 last week) Other yougov polling. The coverage of Cameron “chillaxing” doesn’t seem to have done any particular damage – only 33% say that he doesn’t work hard enough, compared to 39% who think he gets the balance right and 4% who think he works too hard. The YouGov VI…
The Times are reporting that Tory MPs say Greek exit will force referendum What gives this story a lot of credence is that Nadeem Zahawi, who is close (and loyal) to George Osborne, said on the record: “If there is a requirement for a new treaty, which there must be, to deal in part with Greece’s exit, then it would trigger a referendum. We would have to make sure we would try and repatriate powers from the social chapter and bring…
Both the PM and Nick Clegg see 8 points drops Another poll, MORI, has EdM beating DC in leader ratings.Ed’s net rating is -16/Dave’s is -28/Clegg’s is -39 bit.ly/JXzzkh — Mike Smithson (@MikeSmithsonOGH) May 15, 2012 Clegg also sees a big drop in his MORI ratings down from -31 in April to -39 now.bit.ly/JXzzkh — Mike Smithson (@MikeSmithsonOGH) May 15, 2012 Cameron’s -28% MORI rating is worse than Gordon Brown’s was in any survey from the pollster in the 5…
Make your prediction in this PB “poll” Which of Dave/Ed/Nick will be first to stop being party leader? David Cameron Nick Clegg Ed Miliband Mike Smithson is back on Thursday.
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Can Ed turn thing round at his conference? As well as the voting intention figures in the latest ICM for the Guardian there are the firm’s leadership ratings which ask the question of whether the PM/leaders/etc are doing a good or bad job. Cameron sees a substantial boost but the biggest winner in terms of change is Nick Clegg. As we saw in the previous thread the voting intention figures had the Lib Dems down three points which must have…
Is Labour making mischief? It has been brought to my attention that the Nick Clegg YouTube extract on the previous thread takes on a very different meaning when the full quote is included. This is what he said in the speech in March 2008:-