1979 Pre-Election Poll for TV Eye

MORI interviewed a representative interlocking quota sample of 1,075 adults aged 18+. Interviews were conducted face-to-face in 54 constituency sampling points across Great Britain on 29 March 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?

160	Government	Callaghan	Thatcher
160	%	%	%
Satisfied	30	43	44
Dissatisfied	63	51	46
Don't know	7	6	10

Q4 How would you vote if there were a General Election on the 3rd May? (If undecided or refused at Q4) Q5 Which party are you most inclined to support? Base: All expressing a voting intention

160	%
Conservative	51
Labour	42
Liberal	5
Other	2

Q6 The government lost a vote of confidence in the House of Commons last night and are bound to call an election this Spring. On which of these possible dates do you think that the election should be held?

160	%
26th April	29
3rd May	15
10th May	24
17th May	7
24th May	6
31st May	4
7th June	3
14th June	2
Don't know	10

Q7 What do you think are the most important issues facing Britain today?

160	%
Prices/cost of living/inflation	59
Trade unions/strikes	32
Unemployment	28
Taxation	14
Common Market	12
Law and order	10
Housing/rates/rents	7
Pensions	7
Immigration/race relations	5
Schools/education	5
National Health Service	2
Nationalisation	2
Northern Ireland	2
Devolution	1
Rhodesia	0
("Other" and don't know responses not recorded

Q8 If there were a referendum tomorrow on whether Britain should stay in or get out of the Common Market, how would you vote?

160	%
Stay in	32
Get out	60
Don't know	8

160

Q9 Which party do you think will win the next general election?

160	%
Conservative	65
Labour	24
Liberal	1
Other	*
Don't know	10

160

Q10 Do you think the fact that a Conservative win would mean a women as Prime Minister will help or hinder the Conservatives at the polls?

160	%
Help	25
Hinder	40
Make no difference	29
Don't know	6

160

Q11 Do you approve or disapprove of the Labour government making concessions to certain minority parties in order to gain their support in the House of Commons?

160	%
Approve	18
Disapprove	71
Don't know	11