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The PB/Polling Matters podcast on the future for LAB & probes whether a Corbyn victory is inevitable

The PB/Polling Matters podcast on the future for LAB & probes whether a Corbyn victory is inevitable

On this week’s PB/Polling Matters podcast we continue the new format of the show where each guest picks a polling or elections topic to talk about and the group discuss it. On this week’s show Keiran Pedley is joined by former BBC journalist and Labour press officer Don Brind who regularly contributes to the PB site and is currently working with Saving Labour on Owen Smith’s leadership campaign. Also joining Keiran is Harry Carr who is a political analyst at…

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The summer of political turmoil continues: A look back and look forward in latest PB/Polling Matters Podcast

The summer of political turmoil continues: A look back and look forward in latest PB/Polling Matters Podcast

On the agenda for Keiran Pedley this week:- Should May call an early general election? Corbyn’s battle to hang onto his job Have the Tories become the long-term opposition the to the SNP in Scotland? Can Trump beat Clinton Keiran is joined by two specialist political pollsters: Katy Owen, formerly a Senior Project Manager at Survation and now Programme Manager at Common Vision and Adam Drummond, Head of Political Polling at Opinium. You can follow Adam on twitter at @AGKD123…

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After another massive political 7 days in the UK & US it’s time to reflect with the latest PB/Polling Matters TV Show

After another massive political 7 days in the UK & US it’s time to reflect with the latest PB/Polling Matters TV Show

The scale and pace of political events is simply breath-taking with PM May’s first PMQs, the LAB leadership race now down to two with campaigning just ratcheting up and, of course, the Republican Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. Examining all of this: Keiran Pedley is in the chair with Lord Stewart Wood, the Labour peer and Oxford academic, and Conor Pope of LabourList The audio podcast is here: Mike Smithson Follow @MSmithsonPB Tweet

On the day Chilcot was published the latest PB/Polling Matters podcast looks at the legacy of Iraq & asks whether Theresa May is now unstoppable

On the day Chilcot was published the latest PB/Polling Matters podcast looks at the legacy of Iraq & asks whether Theresa May is now unstoppable

On this week’s PB/Polling Matters podcast Keiran and Rob discuss the legacy of Iraq on British politics and the latest on the Tory leadership contest. This episode includes a detailed discussion on recent YouGov polling that shows Theresa May in a commanding position and Keiran argues that the Tories should consider crowning the Home Secretary as Prime Minister early. Meanwhile, the team discuss whether a Labour MP that supported the Iraq War can really hope to lead the Labour Party…

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The PB/Polling Matters podcast: Reflecting on the longest week in politics that just about anybody can remember

The PB/Polling Matters podcast: Reflecting on the longest week in politics that just about anybody can remember

On this week’s PB/Polling Matters podcast Keiran Pedley and Leo Barasi try and make sense of what has happened in the past week – as news of Theresa May’s poll lead over Boris Johnson and Michael Gove’s decision to stand for Tory leader breaks all around them. They discuss why Britain decided to leave the EU, the polling, who will be the next Prime Minister and what now for the Labour Party. You can follow Keiran on twitter at @keiranpedley…

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The polling that suggests Corbyn is unassailable discussed in the latest PB/Polling Matters podcast

The polling that suggests Corbyn is unassailable discussed in the latest PB/Polling Matters podcast

What is the future for Labour? On this week’s show, Keiran and Rob analyse YouGov’s recent polling of Labour members and what’s behind Jeremy Corbyn’s seemingly unassailable position as Labour leader. They also address the apparent limitations of such polling as described by pollster James Morris in today’s Times and what this poll tells us (and doesn’t tell us) about the future of the Labour Party. Meanwhile, the Polling Matters team also look at the continued difference between what online…

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Exactly six weeks to go to the day that Britain decides on its future in Europe

Exactly six weeks to go to the day that Britain decides on its future in Europe

The polling, however, has been reduced to a fizzle After a period when referendum polls were coming out almost everyday there’s suddenly been a lull in the number of polls being published. It is now May 12th and just three surveys have come out where the fieldwork has taken place in May. All of them have been online. The last phone poll was completed on April 26th. Hopefully this is a temporary interruption caused by last week’s range of elections…

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