Latest YouGov / The Sun results 10th April - CON 28%, LAB 42%, LD 12%, UKIP 11%; APP -33 See the full survey results
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Margaret Thatcher and public opinion: It was the best of times; it was the worst of times Over the last few years YouGov has asked the British public many different questions about Margaret Thatcher and her legacy. For example, more than once we have asked people their opinion on who ...
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YouGov/The Sun poll finds public divided along party lines on Thatcher’s greatest achievements and failures A new YouGov/The Sun poll has revealed that 52% of Conservative Party supporters think defeating the miners’ strike and limiting the power of the unions was Margaret Thatcher’s greatest achievement.  However, 51% of Labour voters ...
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YouGov CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, discusses the huge impact of the news of Margaret Thatcher’s death on social media websites. Social media, as we now know it, wasn’t even invented when Margaret Thatcher was in power. And yet nearly a quarter century after she left Downing Street news of her death ...
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Our first poll looking back at the legacy of Margaret Thatcher since her death this week shows the majority of people think she was a great or good Prime Minister (indeed, 28% see her as the greatest of Britain's post war Prime Ministers), but that a significant minority regard her ...
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Latest YouGov / The Sun results 9th April - CON 33%, LAB 41%, LD 10%, UKIP 10%; APP -30 See the full survey results
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New Yougov research shows one in two Britons support Thatcher’s full ceremonial funeral at St Pauls Cathedral The findings come after widespread controversy over the kind of funeral Lady Thatcher should receive. On April 17th there will be a ceremonial funeral, such as the one granted to Princess Diana. Tory ...
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YouGov research from July 2010 found that for Britons, Thatcher's relationship with Reagan ranks as the closest in modern times ***Click HERE to browse our Thatcher archive*** Forty-four per cent of the British public thought the relationship between PM Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan was the closest of any ...
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Latest YouGov / The Sun results 8th April - CON 30%, LAB 40%, LD 12%, UKIP 12%; APP -33 See the full survey results
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YouGov research from November 2011 revealed that Margaret Thatcher's legacy was still divisive, but her supporters outnumbered her detractors. ***Click HERE to browse our Thatcher archive*** News of Baroness Thatcher's death at the age of 87 has already been greeted with words of praise from leaders across the world, and has re-ignited ...
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