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John Humphrys asks: What does David Miliband’s departure mean for the Labour Party? David Miliband’s decision to leave British politics and take up an international job in New York marks the end, at least for the time being and possibly forever, of a political career many saw as likely to ...
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European Union foreign ministers meet in Dublin this Friday to discuss whether to lift or ease the EU’s arms embargo on Syria. YouGov surveys this week in Britain and France find that voters in both countries are reluctant to back David Cameron’s and President Hollande’s demands to allow military supplies ...
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YouGov CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, argues that Britain cannot afford another omnishambles British GDP has been stagnating, yet unemployment has been falling; retail sales are up but manufacturing is contracting; stock markets are still hitting record highs but being spooked by developments on a small island with a population of 1.1m. ...
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Ten years after the Iraq war, YouGov's Director of Political and Social research, Joe Twyman, discusses the sectarianism that divides the country During the early months of my time in Iraq I witnessed a very interesting event at Baghdad International Airport (colloquially known as 'BIAP') that, for me, came to ...
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YouGov President, Peter Kellner, analyses the public’s views on press regulation and Wednesday’s Budget The public’s response to two very different controversies is much the same: what matters is what works. Asked about how best to regulate the press and, separately, what the Chancellor should say in his Budget, voters ...
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