As part of the YouGov-Cambridge Programme, Dr Finbarr Livesay made a written submission to the House of Commons Speaker’s Digital Democracy Commission, investigating British attitudes to representation and how the public want to engage in decision making in Parliament. Full analysis and discussion is being prepared as a set of ...

This paper reports the results of a nationally representative survey of how the UK public views manufacturing, carried out in January 2012, providing for the first time an evidence base for the discussion on the image of manufacturing in the UK. Much of this discussion to date has been anecdotal, ...

While three quarters of voters want to be consulted before key votes, only one third believe it is their responsibility to find out about the issues and influence their MP. British voters want to control their representatives but don’t want to make the effort to engage with them. Possibly even ...