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But will a grateful nation reward to the Tories? We all know what a huge political issue vaccinations has become in Europe over the past few months and the above table from Politico shows country-by-country how many have actually been jabbed. The UK’s dominance is quite remarkable and reflects the political decisions made last year to back the Oxford/AZC programme as well as place big orders with Pfizer. What I have found quite impressive has been the way vaccination centres…

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And Sturgeon maintains good lead in YouGov’s “well/badly” ratings With all the polling ahead of the Scottish election on May 6th the two sets of numbers I am following the most are the ones on Scottish independence and Nicola sturgeon’s personal ratings. The former I believe gives a good sense of support for the SNP’s main mission and that will be reflected in the outcome in the elections. The second good area to keep track of are Sturgeon’s personal ratings….

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 “A basic rule of government is …… never set up an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be.” (Sir Humphrey to Jim Hacker, Yes Minister 1980). The government must have felt confident it was following this golden – if cynical – rule when Lord Faulks QC was appointed to chair the panel inquiring into judicial review. A Conservative justice Minister (now unaffiliated peer). A lawyer who publicly criticised the Supreme Court’s decision on prorogation and who…

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In today’s poll the percentage of those in the 16-34 segment saying they are following the advice ‘mostly’ or ‘entirely’ – is now 58% down from 65% in January. These slight changes in behaviour are not confined to just the young. Overall amongst UK adults, there is a slight decrease in those who say they are ‘entirely’ following the Government’s advice 31% for the week ending 21st March. This is a 4% drop from the proportion who said the same…

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Two of the last five polls have the lead down at 2% Having hit the extraordinary polling margin on 13% at the start of the month the latest polls in the Wikipedia table the most recent published surveys have gaps nowhere nearly as large. In fact as can be seen two of the latest five surveys have it at just 2%. Maybe the novelty of the what should be regarded as a very successful vaccination programme is starting to wear…

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The above is from a range of polls that YouGov has been carrying out across Europe on how the AstraZeneca vaccine is perceived by the public in the major countries featured. It is perhaps not surprising given the comments made by Macron and Merkel that the most negative perceptions are in their countries. Maybe it is a bit of the not invented here syndrome but the perception gap is massive and not helped by the regular reports of almost empty…

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