Little public support for doctors strikes
The Marmalade Trust - Ipsos survey found that 61% of UK adults who have ever personally experienced feelings of loneliness have never told anyone they are feel lonely.
MORI chairman Sir Robert Worcester analyses the latest opinion poll data.
This short note tries to explain in simple terms the main elements of the way MORI conducts its election polling and what those polls mean.
MORI research director Bobby Duffy, standing in for Sir Robert Worcester today, analyses the opinion polls.
Students are slightly more important in deciding the outcomes of British general elections than they have been in the past. There are many more of them now than there was 40 years ago. Students numbered around 400,000 in 1964 in an electorate of just over 36m (1.1%) but around 2m in 2001 in an electorate of 43.8m (4.6%).
By Dr Paul Baines, Middlesex University and Julia Clark, MORI
Q How important, if at all, would you say the things I am going to read out will be in helping you decide how to vote in the general election?
Reasons for supporting a party, interest in politics and election news, and how well informed the public feel about the parties' policies
