How well do you think London's voters understand the complexities of the electoral system, with which they will be faced for the first time in the London Mayor and Assembly elections next month?
A research report released today (2 May) by Cardiff University - based on interviews conducted by MORI - gives a detailed insight into views of hunting with dogs in four selected rural communities, all centred around individual hunts.
Earlier this week Peter Kellner in his column in the London Evening Standard strongly criticised two aspects of BBC coverage of the London Mayor and other local elections to be held next month. First, he complained that the BBC's political journalists in London, who had commissioned a poll on the election from MORI [BBC London Live poll] had been prevented by Corporation policy from including any questions on voting intention; this is merely the continuation of a policy which we have criticised for a number of years. Secondly, he has pointed out a new restriction, which will lead to all the parties being required to run their election broadcasts before Easter, a full ten days before polling day. This, arises from the introduction of pilot schemes in a number of councils across the country, whereby a few polling stations will be open early, on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday before the normal polling day, so that electors who cannot vote in the usual way will be able to cast thei...
Survey commissioned by SME champion, mondus.co.uk, reveals 80% of SMEs would trade-unions online if there was a simple way to do it.
Pulse Check
Pulse Check delivers key insights from Ipsos' Political Monitor, Political Pulse, and Public Services data, along with reactive polling, to help you navigate the evolving political landscape.
The MORI CEDR Civil Justice Audit is an independent assessment of attitudes and perceptions by experienced legal practitioners - both in-house and external - focusing on the effects the new Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) have had on the cost and speed of the settlement of cases. In particular, the survey focuses on how the use of mediation fits into their overall practice.
People want key public services to be available into the evenings and at weekends according to research published today by Cabinet Office Minister, Ian McCartney. He said that work was now underway to develop plans for meeting that need.
Nurses believe the biggest priority for tackling nurse shortages is for services to have the right number and type of nurses, health care assistants and other staff, according to a MORI poll for the Royal College of Nursing, published on the eve of RCN Congress 2000.
What is "Britishness"? Is there some common national identity that all of us, or most of us, in these islands share? And are there common characteristics which we tend to assume other Britons are likely to have? The question poses itself in the week in which Tony Blair and William Hague, in their own ways, tried to make political capital by appealing to British voters' instincts of national identity.
One in four serious business disputes has a significant impact on the parties' business and many businesses are likely to increase their use of mediation.
