MORI interviewed a representative interlocking quota sample of 1,041 adults aged 18+. Interviews were conducted face-to-face in 53 constituency sampling points across Great Britain on 2 April 1979.
Q1 Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way the government is running the country?
Q2 Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way Mr Callaghan is doing his job as Prime Minister?
Q3 Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way Mrs Thatcher is doing her job as Leader of the Opposition?
| |
Government |
Callaghan |
Thatcher |
|---|
| |
% |
% |
% |
|---|
| Satisfied |
28 |
44 |
47 |
| Dissatisfied |
64 |
50 |
38 |
| Don't know
|
8 |
6 |
15 |
Q4 How will you vote in the General Election on May 3rd?
(If undecided or refused at Q4)
Q5 Which party are you most inclined to support?
Base: All expressing a voting intention
| |
% |
|---|
| Conservative |
51 |
| Labour |
38 |
| Liberal
|
10 |
| Other |
1 |
Q6 Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister, Mr Callaghan or Mrs Thatcher?
| |
% |
|---|
| Callaghan |
42 |
| Thatcher |
40 |
| Don't know |
18
|
Q7 Do you think Mr Callaghan should or should not have called a General Election?
| |
% |
|---|
| Should |
85 |
| Should not |
9 |
| Don't know |
6
|
Q8 What issues do you think the General Election will be about?
Q9 What issues do you think the General Election should be about?
| |
Will |
Should |
|---|
| |
% |
% |
|---|
| Prices/cost of living/inflation |
54 |
55 |
| Trade unions/strikes |
24
|
24 |
| Unemployment |
24 |
24 |
| Taxation |
19 |
20 |
| Common Market |
11 |
11 |
| Law and order |
19 |
13 |
| Housing/rates/rents |
10 |
8 |
| Pensions |
11 |
9 |
| Immigration/race relations |
5 |
4 |
| Schools/education |
7 |
4 |
| National Health Service |
6 |
4 |
| Nationalisation |
2 |
2 |
| Northern Ireland |
8 |
6 |
| Devolution |
2 |
5 |
| ("Other" and don't know responses not recorded) |
|
|
Q10 I am going to read out a list of issues facing people in Britain today. Would you please tell me which political party you think has the best policies on each one?
| |
|
Cons-
ervative |
Labour |
Liberal |
Other |
Don't know |
|---|
| Inflation & prices |
% |
38 |
33 |
5 |
0 |
23 |
| Strikes & industrial disputes |
% |
40 |
22 |
4 |
1 |
23 |
| Unemployment |
% |
37 |
29 |
5 |
1 |
28 |
| Common Market |
% |
33 |
24 |
4 |
2 |
37 |
Q11 How likely is it that you will get along to vote in the General Election on May 3rd?
| |
% |
|---|
| Certain not to vote |
6 |
| Not very likely to vote
|
5 |
| Quite likely to vote |
8 |
| Very likely to vote |
13 |
| Certain to vote |
69 |
Q12 How much do you personally care who wins the General Election?
| |
% |
|---|
| I care very much indeed |
42 |
| I care quite a lot |
26 |
| I care a fair amount |
14 |
| I care a little |
10 |
| I don't care at all |
8 |
Q13 After the next election do you think that the Liberal Party will have more seats in Parliament than at present, fewer seats or the same number of seats as at present?
| |
% |
|---|
| More seats |
50 |
| Fewer seats |
18 |
| Same number |
22 |
| Don't know |
10 |
