Posted on August 31st, 2005 by Anthony Wells
As you’ll have no doubt spotted from the copious library footage of cigar-smoking fat men in fedoras on the news bulletins, Ken Clarke has lumbered into the ring to contest the Conservative leadership again. You can’t be a perennial Conservative leadership contender for a decade without having had quite a few polling questions asked about [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
Last night I reported YouGov’s findings on abortion and the use of embryos for research – today I’ll cover the rest of the poll, which examined stem-cell research, cloning, euthanasia and “designer babies”.
As you might have noticed, the stem cell question on the Telegraph’s table doesn’t make sense – the use of stem [...]
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Filed under: Abortion, YouGov
Posted on August 30th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
Though it wasn’t published in the Telegraph, the YouGov poll on abortion, medical ethics and so on also included YouGov’s monthly political tracker questions (the figures should be up on the YouGov website shortly). The topline voting intention figures, with changes from last month, were CON 33%(+2), LAB 40%(nc), LDEM 20%(-1).
Most of the trackers [...]
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Filed under: Voting Intention, YouGov
Posted on August 29th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
Today’s Telegraph carried an extensive YouGov poll on abortion, embryo research and related topics. There were a couple of polls on abortion earlier this year when Michael Howard indicated he wouild favour a tighter time limit on abortion. They showed that somewhere between a quarter and a third of people supported the current 24 week [...]
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Filed under: Abortion, YouGov
Posted on August 25th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
There is a little press release spat going on between the Tobacco Manufacturers Association and ASH, the anti-smoking pressure group over a poll published by ASH earlier this week. The poll, carried out by the BMRB, claimed to show that 73% of people would support a complete ban on smoking in pall workplaces, including all [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2005 by Anthony Wells
The ICM poll on faith schools which I covered yesterday has now turned up on the front page of the Guardian. The Guardian obviously highlights the finding that two thirds of people apparantly oppose faith schools – it isn’t actually that clear cut though.
The question gave people a choice of saying that they supported government [...]
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Filed under: Education, ICM, Religion