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Unemployment moves up sharply on the MORI issues index

Unemployment moves up sharply on the MORI issues index

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Ipsos-MORI Details of the latest Ipsos-MORI issues index are shown above and a big mover is unemployment. Another big mover is “morality – individual behaviour” prompted, surely, by last month’s riots. This survey has been carried out by MORI in the same way for well over three decades and what makes it unique is that responses are not prompted. Interviewees are first asked about what they consider to be the main issue that is facing the country and then to…

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Will EdM raise Dave’s Bullingdon past at the first PMQs?

Will EdM raise Dave’s Bullingdon past at the first PMQs?

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Does the PM’s Today comment create an opening? It seems like an age away but it’s only seven weeks – the last time that Dave and Ed faced each other at PMQs. A lot’s happened in the meantime – the increasing pressures on the financial markets and of course last month’s riots. So how’s Ed Miliband going to use this first opportunity to question, probe, and hopefully for him, pull off what’s seen as a victory over the PM? One…

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Riots push crime up in the August MORI issues index

Riots push crime up in the August MORI issues index

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Economist But concerns are still way below the 2007 high The August Ipsos-MORI issues index is out in the Economist and not unexpectedly last week’s rioting has pushed crime/law and order/violence right up as one of the issues that most concern those sampled. This polling is unusual in that it is carried out face to face and the responses are totally unprompted. MORI has been doing it this way for three decades and their archives are an important part of…

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Has the Met job become a test of Dave’s authority?

Has the Met job become a test of Dave’s authority?

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Should you take the 7/1 that Cameron will get his way? Overnight I put a bet on with Ladbrokes at 7/1 that the American who as been boss of several US police forces, including New York, Bill Bratton, will get the job as Metropolitan Police commissioner. This appointment is reported to becoming becoming a trial of strength between Number 10 and the Home Office with the latter making it a job requirement that the post goes to a British citizen….

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YouGov: Clegg gets the biggest riot week boost

YouGov: Clegg gets the biggest riot week boost

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But all three leaders see improvements The weekly leader ratings from YouGov are just out and all three see an increase in their “doing well” figures and a decline in the “doing badly” rating. The biggest change has been for Nick Clegg who sees the positive number going up by four with a similar drop in the negative one making an eight point net change. The LD leader still has the smallest positive number and the biggest negative one. Miliband…

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ICM: Just 30pc say Dave has done “good job” on riots

ICM: Just 30pc say Dave has done “good job” on riots

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Another poll has voters backing the police over politicians The Guardian has an ICM poll just out asking for reactions on the riots. It was carried out online and the fieldwork finished last night – so it’s much more up to date than the YouGov numbers featured here this morning. The “good job/bad job” figures are shown in the chart above with Dave on 30% for “good job” to 44% for “bad job”. Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin, meanwhile has a…

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Will the Tories conspire to lose the Law and Order battle?

Will the Tories conspire to lose the Law and Order battle?

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Henry G Manson on the riots aftermath The Conservatives should win the law and order debate hands down. Always. Their MPs traditionally go further than any other party and understandably there’s a huge appetite for tough action on those involved in rioting. Yet the failure to budge on the 20% cuts to policing leaves the government wide open to attack from Labour and parts of the Conservative-inclined press too. There are so many things to be said about the recent…

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The riots: How politicians are rated compared with the police

The riots: How politicians are rated compared with the police

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Will the police always come out on top? Following the previous post about the reported police reaction to the PM’s criticisms over their handling of the riots I’ve dug up the above YouGov polling that was published on Wednesday. The question was: “Thinking about the recent riots in London and other cities in Britain. How well or badly do you think each of the following are dealing with situation? – The police/Cameron/Boris?” Things have moved on sharply in the past…

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