How would Britain vote in a referendum on the EU - and should Cameron or Miliband commit to calling one? Peter Kellner considers our latest poll results According to the Observer, senior members of Labour’s shadow cabinet want Ed Miliband to commit Labour at the next election to an in-out ...
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Will Ed Miliband's lead over David Cameron last? YouGov President Peter Kellner looks to history to judge our latest results It may not last. Short-term blips should not be confused with long-term trends. In polling, as with gravity, what zooms up generally drops back down. Nevertheless, something noteworthy happened last ...
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Our final London elections poll shows Boris Johnson defeating Ken Livingstone in the run-off vote for Mayor YouGov’s final London elections poll for the Evening Standard shows Boris Johnson defeating Ken Livingstone in the run-off vote for Mayor by 53-47% - the same margin by which he won four years ...
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Tory slump + UKIP rise = Cameron nightmare - YouGov President Peter Kellner explains the latest polls The game has changed; and with elections across much of Britain this week, the timing for the Conservatives could scarcely be worse. YouGov’s latest poll for the Sunday Times puts them at 29%. ...
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Hollande is on course for 54-46% victory in round two, explains Peter Kellner as YouGov tracks French Presidential Election Had France completed its presidential election on a single day, Francois Hollande would now be President-elect, having defeated Nicolas Sarkozy in the run-off vote by 54-46%. This is YouGov’s projection, based ...
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With just two weeks until London's mayoral election, recent polling for the London Evening Standard shows Boris Johnson on course to remain mayor, but puts Labour ahead in London assembly With just over two weeks to go until London’s mayoral election, YouGov’s first weekly campaign poll for the Evening Standard ...
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Granny tax, pasties, Bradford and petrol: Peter Kellner analyses the recent dramatic events in politics and draws conclusions from our latest data Both of the main party leaders may be tempted to follow Millicent Martin’s Saturday night injunction on the BBC almost half a century ago: 'That was the week ...
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YouGov’s lastest poll for the Sunday Times confirms the main messages from our immediate post-Budget poll for the Sun: that the Budget is seen as unfair, that most people disbelieve government assertions that the rich will end up paying more tax, that pensioners are being unfairly penalised – and that ...
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Latest YouGov/The Sun poll shows the Budget hurts the Tories but doesn’t help Labour YouGov’s first post-Budget poll for the Sun finds that Wednesday’s announcements have dented Conservative support; they are now on 34%. They have never been lower since the 2010 election, though they have touched this number on ...
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British people generally have a higher regard for the Germans than the Germans have of the British; but people in both countries admire Sweden most of all. We have held a poll for adults in both Britain and Germany for the annual Anglo-German Koenigswinter conference, which meets this year from ...
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