MORI interviewed a representative quota sample of 1,826 adults aged 18+. Interviews were conducted face-to-face in 154 constituency sampling points across Great Britain on 24-28 April 1980.
Q Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way the government is running the country?
Q Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way Mrs Thatcher is doing her job as Prime Minister?
Q Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way Mr Callaghan is doing his job as Leader of the Opposition?
| |
Government |
Thatcher |
Callaghan |
|---|
| |
% |
% |
% |
|---|
| Satisfied
|
33 |
43 |
41 |
| Dissatisfied
|
57 |
50 |
37 |
| Don't know |
10 |
7 |
22 |
Q How would you vote if there were a General Election tomorrow?
(If undecided or refused)
Q Which party are you most inclined to support?
Base: All expressing a voting intention (1,595) - excludes 5% would not vote, 3% undecided, 4% refused
| |
% |
|---|
| Conservative |
39 |
| Labour |
44 |
| Liberal
|
14 |
| Scottish/Welsh Nationalist |
2 |
| National Front/National Party |
* |
| Other |
1 |
Q Do you think that the general economic condition of the country will improve, stay the same, or get worse over the next 12 months?
| |
% |
|---|
| Improve |
13 |
| Stay the same |
15 |
| Get worse
|
68 |
| Don't know |
4 |
| Net economic optimism (improve minus get worse)
|
-55 |
Q Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher or Mr Callaghan?
| |
% |
|---|
| Thatcher |
38 |
| Callaghan |
42 |
| Don't know |
20 |
Q Did you vote in the General Election last May?
(If so) Which party did you vote for?
| |
% |
|---|
| Conservative |
36 |
| Labour |
35 |
| Liberal
|
9 |
| Scottish/Welsh Nationalist |
1 |
| National Front/ |
* |
| Other |
* |
| Did not vote |
15 |
| Refused |
4 |
Q On the whole, do you think that the present Conservative government has made a better or worse job of running the country than you had expected they would when they were elected last May?
Q And has Mrs Thatcher proved to be a better or worse Prime Minister than you expected she would be?
| |
Government |
Thatcher |
|---|
| |
% |
% |
|---|
| Better |
12
|
27 |
| Worse |
48 |
36 |
| Much as expected |
35 |
32 |
| Don't know |
5 |
5 |
Q On this card are a number of issues and problems that the government has had to handle since the Election last May. Could you please go through this list and, for each issue, tell me whether you approve or disapprove of the way the government has handled this issue?
| |
|
Approve |
Disapprove
|
Don't know |
|---|
| Inflation |
% |
24 |
64 |
12 |
| Unemployment |
% |
20 |
65 |
15 |
| Steel strike |
% |
43 |
41 |
16 |
| Taxation |
% |
41 |
46 |
14 |
| Government spending
|
% |
29 |
58 |
13 |
| Rhodesia |
% |
62 |
15 |
23 |
| The Olympics
|
% |
28 |
57 |
15 |
| Afghanistan |
% |
32 |
30 |
38 |
| Iran |
% |
34 |
31 |
35 |
| Common Market |
% |
41 |
46 |
13 |
| Law & order |
;% |
55 |
29 |
16 |
