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Marf on today’s final edition

Marf on today’s final edition

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Meanwhile 72% of voters say Murdoch has too much influence? There is some YouGov polling this morning linked to the hacking scandal though it is not part of the News International commissioned daily poll which appears in the Sun and the Sunday Times. The questioning started by trying to assess what proportion of those sampled were following the BSkyB take-over. A total of 44% said they were following development with 56% saying not. Amongst other findings: The planned BSkyB take-over…

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Hacking: What are the polls going to say?

Hacking: What are the polls going to say?

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Is the public as concerned as Westminster thinks it is? I’m hoping that we’ll see the first polls this evening on public reaction to the latest hacking allegations. There should be at least one and possibly two surveys which have been in the field yesterday and today. An interesting dimension is whether the News International daily poll, which is carried by the Sun and the Sunday Times, included any questions. The Sun, of course, has been one of a number…

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Mark Gill on the private/public sector worker divide?

Mark Gill on the private/public sector worker divide?

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(Mike Smithson is on holiday for the next 11 days and one of the features on PB during his absence is a series of articles by Mark Gill – former head of political research at Ipsos-MORI and co-author with Bob Worcester, Roger Mortimore, Paul Baines of Explaining Cameron’s Coalition) Does Labour’s lead amongst the latter matter? Labour are way more popular among public sector workers, but how much does this matter? One of the benefits of the detailed data tables…

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Is the NHS helping Clegg’s ratings recovery?

Is the NHS helping Clegg’s ratings recovery?

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Ipsos-MORI And shouldn’t Ed being faring better amongst ex-LDs? As well as this morning’s voting intention figures we now have details of the pollster’s leadership ratings which have been asked in the same form for nearly a third of a century. As can be seen Cameron is almost at a standstill, Clegg sees an upturn from the previous seriously poor figures and Ed Miliband continues to struggle. In spite of Labour benefitting more than the Tories in the fall of…

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Will being tough on crime/immigrants win Tory converts?

Will being tough on crime/immigrants win Tory converts?

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Or are we seeing a core votes strategy? The chart shows the party splits in today’s YouGov “Issues facing you/your family findings and shows a vast difference in the view of what’s important between supporters of the three parties in four key areas. Thus on immigration Tory voters are seven times more likely to be concerned than Lib Dem ones who registered just three percent. Today’s results on the environment are almost exactly a mirror image with LD being seven…

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ComRes finds little support for public sector strikes

ComRes finds little support for public sector strikes

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Are the unions losing the war of words? A ComRes/ ITV News poll on the public sector strikes has found that the public is negative about both the prospects of success and reveals a warning to strikers that they will win little sympathy for strike action in the present financial climate. More than half (54%) say that the public sector strikes ultimately stand no chance of succeeding in changing government policy spending cuts. To another question 63% warn that ‘public…

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How will the Greek bail-out affect views of the EU?

How will the Greek bail-out affect views of the EU?

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What’ll be the impact of events in Athens? One of the findings in the monthly MORI issues index that invariably attracts controversey is on the EU/Europe. This month there was a zero score for those making it the main issue and just 3% listed it as one of the “other issues”. How can it be, it is asked, that so few people seem to care? That’s hard to answer but even in the survey that coincided with the June 2009…

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The poll that adds up to 124 percent

The poll that adds up to 124 percent

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Is the BNP really on 9%? The latest ComRes poll for the Indy on Sunday and the Sunday Mirror is, on the face of it, bad news for Labour, okay news for the Tories but sensational for the BNP. I’ve extracted the table from the detailed data and I cannot make head nor tail of it. If you add up the reported party shares of CON 37: LAB 37: LD 11: BNP 9: SNP 5: GRN 4: PC 4: UKIP…

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