Labour now leads the Tories in most polls – but it should avoid celebration
Current polling owes more to Tory weakness than it does to Labour strength.
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Public support for doing everything possible to limit the spread of coronavirus is at a near-record low.
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Did Covid-19 push public opinion in a more left-wing direction?
The landmark British Social Attitudes survey reveals a public more aware of inequality and sympathetic to welfare. But pollster John…
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Why are the Tories still leading in the polls?
The Conservatives have been in power for 11 years. Why isn’t the country sick of them yet?
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Keir Starmer’s conference speech polled better than Boris Johnson’s – but does it matter?
In focus groups shown the speeches, Starmer came out on top for content, agreeableness, and perceptions of competence.
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Exclusive polling: majority of British voters do not think Afghanistan mission was a success
Nearly half ultimately think the government was wrong to intervene in Afghanistan in 2001.
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How worried should Boris Johnson be by the Conservative Party’s falling poll ratings?
The Labour leadership believes that the Prime Minister has set his government challenges that it will be unable to meet.
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