Angus Reid – The Economist Apr 26 Apr 20 CONSERVATIVES 33% 32% LIB DEMS 30% 33% LABOUR 23% 23% Above is a new Angus Reid poll for this week’s Economist. Note that it is a touch out of date with the fieldwork ending last Monday. As well as the Tories moving up and the Lib Dems moving down a key feature is that Labour are still down at 23%. The firm continues to record the smallest shares for Brown’s party….
More from Marf can been seen here. Site traffic hits new record. Yesterday the number of page downloads exceeded a third of a million – the highest ever in a 24 hour period. Thanks to some nifty work by my son, Robert, another server was brought into use and we just about coped. My guess is that today could see a new record. Mike Smithson
TRS-BMRB Apr 27 Apr 20 CONSERVATIVES 34% 34% LIB DEMS 30% 30% LABOUR 27% 29% There’s a new poll out from TNS-BMRB – the firm that operates on a face to face basis but where interviewees key in their voting intention responses in a confidential manner on a computer. Not much change on the previous week apart from the drop in the Labour share. Note that fieldwork finished on Tuesday – the day before Mr. Brown went to Rochdale. The…
At least he’s making the headlines! This morning’s front pages were always going to be bloody for the PM and these won’t disappoint. Even the ultra-loyal Daily Mirror had a problem with this story. Maybe Brown is lucky that today is final debate day because at the least the media will have to move on. Tomorrow will all be about the this closing session which will frame the coverage for the final few days. Just reflecting on what happened the…
But its CON up- LD down in YESTERDAY’s CR roly-poly poll YouGov/The Sun Apr 28 Apr 27 CONSERVATIVES 34% 33% LIB DEMS 31% 28% LABOUR 27% 29% Harris – Metro Apr 28 Apr 23 CONSERVATIVES 32% 34% LIB DEMS 30% 29% LABOUR 25% 26% ComRes/ITV-The Independent Apr 27 Apr 26 CONSERVATIVES 36% 32% LIB DEMS 26% 29% LABOUR 29% 29% So three new national voting intention polls showing sharply contrasting pictures of Lib Dem support where the differences might be…
BBC New Channel What’ll it do to his plans to stay on? In recent weeks Mr Brown has made a number of comments suggesting that he might want to stay on as Labour’s leader even if his party loses power May 6th. He’s shown in the past that he’s a formidable force to deal and without this afternoon’s events in Rochdale he might just have stood a chance of remaining. But this, surely, changes everything for it highlights he overwhelming…