Just over half of drivers (51%) would approve of the compulsory fitting of speed limiters on all new cars to ensure they cannot speed on any given road or motorway, according to a survey commissioned by jamjar.com, Direct Line's online car retailer.
Less than a third of UK motorists spontaneously mention that having working lights is critical to road safety, according to research by MORI1 on behalf of Unipart Group of Companies. For just under a half, the importance of well-maintained tyres does not immediately spring to mind and 20 per cent do not recollect that the upkeep of brakes is crucial. In addition drivers spend on average over one third more on clothes and alcohol than they do on maintaining their cars.
Our latest MORI poll shows a sharp rise in public support for EMU entry. The balance of opinion against EMU is back to January 1999 levels and is close to the mid-98 highs.
Our poll figures are usually reported giving percentages of the whole British adult population who hold a particular opinion, but it is sometimes instructive to break them down geographically and consider to what extent national opinion is simply an aggregation of different regional opinions.
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Satisfaction with Ken Livingstone's performance as Mayor of London has risen, with a significant increase in the number of Londoners expressing this as their view. The finding comes from the Annual MORI London Survey, commissioned by the GLA and released today, which finds satisfaction with the Mayor's performance has increased by 5 percentage points since the previous survey carried out in 2000.
MORI's 2001 survey of "Captains of Industry" [Business Leaders' Support Grows For Single European Currency], published this week, finds these representatives of Britain's biggest companies divided by more than three to two in favour of Britain joining the euro. This, of course, contrasts with the opposition to joining of the majority of the public. The Captains have always been more euro-friendly than the public, but in the last two years before the 2001 study the gap had been narrowing; the most recent figures show a sharp business swing in favour of the single currency, though as the table shows the balance of opinions has effectively simply reverted to that from 1999.
A new report, published today by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), explodes the myths often used to explain the shortage of women in politics and reveals the extent of discrimination across the political parties. Man enough for the job? A study of Parliamentary candidates, was carried out for the EOC by the MORI Social Research Institute.
