Miliband tops the leader ratings on the hacking scandal

Miliband tops the leader ratings on the hacking scandal

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And Clegg’s comfortably in second place There’s some new hacking scandal polling from Survation – the firm that carried out an initial poll on the issues raised for Channel 4 last week. Fieldwork was carried out between Monday and yesterday and the online sample was was 1069. The client was an organisation called Progressive Polling which has been set up to commission surveys on issues which they are interested in. Most of the findings have either been overtaken by events…

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How’ll politics be changed with Murdoch being tamed?

How’ll politics be changed with Murdoch being tamed?

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Could Ken Clarke be an early beneficiary? With the Murdoch empire now tied up with inquiries on both sides of the Atlantic it is hard to see how what has been a huge influence in UK politics continuing to have the same potency. To take one example just look at what’s happened to the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, in the last couple of months as he’s sought to question and bring change to the penal system. Against the background of…

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What can we tell about Dave from his handling of the scandal?

What can we tell about Dave from his handling of the scandal?

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Why was he so slow off the mark? Now we’ve moved from the the first frenetic stage of the hacking scandal perhaps this might be the moment to reflect on how the main players have handled it and what we’ve seen tells us about their strengths and weaknesses. I thought Numbertwelve summed Cameron up well in this post that was on the previous thread:- “….His main failing, in my view, is an inability to prepare or respond to events until…

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What are newspaper weightings doing to YouGov polls?

What are newspaper weightings doing to YouGov polls?

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Data source – YouGov Why are the views of Mirror readers magnified? Overnight we had the usual YouGov daily poll for News International and this showed Labour, on 43%, with an 8 point lead over the Tories with the Lib Dems on 10%. Over the past thirteen months YouGov has consistently been reporting higher Labour shares than the other firms which generally have the gap between the two main parties much closer. Thus in all but one YouGov poll since…

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