There are two versions of what has happened in the past three weeks in the battle to be US President. One is the version told by most nationwide polls and accepted by the media; the second, told by a minority of nationwide polls, including YouGov, and most polls in the ...
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Millions of people turned away from Labour during its 13 years in power. There’s only one way it can win them back, analyses YouGov President, Peter Kellner A single, stark statistic ricocheted round Labour’s annual conference this autumn: that during the party’s 13 years in power it lost five million ...
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YouGov President, Peter Kellner, talks about Scotland: pro-Salmond, anti-independence Following the agreement between David Cameron and Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister will be able to say he has kept his promise to hold a referendum on Scottish independence in 2014. Given the low regard in which politicians generally are held, ...
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Were the Conservative party a ship, it would now be holed dangerously near the water line. This is clear from YouGov polls for the Sun and Sunday Times ahead of this week’s party conference. Since Ed Miliband’s speech last Tuesday to Labour’s annual conference, the Tories have slipped back to ...
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Ed Miliband’s speech to Labour’s conference has boosted his and the party’s ratings. YouGov’s first survey since Miliband delivered his ‘one nation’ speech on Tuesday shows Labour’s lead up to 14 points, matching its highest this year and following leads of 5 and 9 points in our two previous polls. ...
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Ed Miliband is fortunate that Britain is not America. As things stand, he would be heading for victory in a general election held this autumn. However were he fighting a US-style presidential election, then he would be staring at defeat. For six months, Labour’s lead has been fairly steady at ...
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While many people see Mr Clegg as likeable, few see him as strong, decisive or trustworthy. These are terrible figures for a man who says he will lead his party at the next election, suggests YouGov President Peter Kellner As I have brought consistently bleak news about Nick Clegg in ...
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...of America. An international study conducted by YouGov-Cambridge shortly before the American embassies attacks, finds that the US has a poor reputation Only a tiny number of people have attacked American embassies across the Arab world; but an international study conducted shortly before the attacks finds that the US has ...
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On every one of the eight leadership qualities that YouGov tests regularly, Boris Johnson outscores David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg by vast amounts. Few people will be surprised that Boris Johnson is now more popular than any of Britain’s three main political leaders. What is truly remarkable is ...
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An open letter to the Prime Minister from YouGov President Peter Kellner Dear David So far, so bad. Last week you reshuffled half your cabinet in order to inject vitality into your government and demonstrate a fresh sense of purpose. Sadly, voters are unpersuaded. YouGov polls since the reshuffle show ...
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