Government’s net approval rating drops to MINUS 8
The latest government approval rating in tonight’s YouGov daily poll has 37% approve to 45% disapprove – a net rating of minus 8. This is the biggest gap by far since the general election.
What impact will this have on the next election?
BBC News Will individual registration make Labour’s task harder? The news on the revised electoral registration arrangements to be put in place before the next general election might not sound particularly significant but it could make life that much harder for Labour at the next election. Until now the head of a household makes a list eligible voters each and does not have to provide ID for them. Now the plan is that by 2014, before the planned 2015 general…
ComRes: 44pc of Labour voters say they just “don’t know”
Independent Can we ignore this latest poll? There’s what might appear to be good news for the beleaguered David Miliband campaign in a ComRes poll for the Indy this morning. The sample consisted of 1,597 people who had voted Labour at least once since 1992 and all the findings seem to favour the ex-foreign secretary. Across a range of questions such as “preferred candidate”,” best opposition leader”, and “best PM” the elder Miliband is beating his brother by a factor…
Labour hit a 2010 high with YouGov
Poll Date CON LAB LD LEAD YouGov/Sun 14/09/10 40 39 12 1 YouGov/Sun 13/09/10 41 38 12 3 YouGov/Sunday Times 10/09/10 42 38 14 4 YouGov/Sun 09/09/10 42 37 14 5 YouGov/Sun 08/09/10 43 38 12 5 YouGov/Sun 07/09/10 42 38 13 4 YouGov/Sun 06/09/10 42 37 13 5 YouGov/Sunday Times 03/09/10 42 37 12 5 YouGov/Sun 02/09/10 42 37 12 5 YouGov/Sun 01/09/10 43 37 12 6 YouGov/Sun 31/08/10 43 38 11 5 YouGov/Sunday Times 27/08/10 41 37 13…
Is EdM the choice of Nick and Dave?
Has the FT’s George Parker got this one right? I’ve just caught up with a perceptive piece by the FT’s George Parker on the Labour leadership race. He goes through the merits and shortcomings of the contenders and then concludes:- “.. David is the choice of those at the top of the party, who are keen to return to power. Alone, he has talked about rebuilding the coalition that won the party three election victories from 1997. His handicap is…
Do Clegg’s problems derive from this – 30 years ago?
BBC What does he do about the 1981 LAB>SDP defectors? Whenever there are problems within the Lib Dem side of the coalition then invariably the names that crop up are Bob Russell, the Colchester MP, and Mike Hancock of Portsmouth South. For these two alongside Business Secretary, Vince Cable, have several things in common notably that they are all in their mid-60s and they were all active Labour politicians who in 1981/82 defected to the new Social Democratic Party –…
Will Labour be ahead by the month end?
What will the new leader do to the polls? Last night on the thread the former Labour MP, Nick Palmer, was offering a wager that his party would be ahead in the polls by the end of the month. I don’t know whether there were any takers but his reasoning was faultless. The result of the leadership election will be announced a week on Saturday – on the first day of the party’s conference. All eyes will then be on…
Was YouGov even better for EdM than first reported?
Are his supporters more likely to have voted? Some key detail has come out this evening from the YouGov labour leadership poll which suggests that EdM’s position is even better than the top-line figures suggested. The detailed data breaks responses down in both the party member and trade unionists sections according to whether respondents had already voted or not. About 40% had already cast their ballots and of these in both sections Ed Miliband was doing far better than amongst…