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Pulse Check - July 2025

Little public support for doctors strikes
30 July 2025
Society

New research reveals 3 in 5 UK adults who have ever experienced loneliness have never opened up about it

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.
30 July 2025
Society

Internationally Recruited Nurses Paying Up To £2,000 To Care For Patients

Over one in three internationally recruited nurses have had to pay fees to their employer or a recruitment agency to work in the UK.
22 April 2002
Society

The State Of The Economy

When terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September, economic optimism in Britain fell sharply: the MORI Economic Optimism Index (EOI) in our late-September poll for The Times hit -56, its lowest level for more than twenty years. It is perhaps surprising that barely half a year later all discussion of this year's budget should be concerned with the popularity of its taxation measures and not with its macroeconomic effects.
19 April 2002
Society

Effect Of Candidate Ethnicity In The British General Elections Of 1997 And 2001

Statistical analysis of constituency results in the last two general elections strongly suggests that ethnic minority (Black or Asian) candidates secure a smaller share of the vote for their parties than do white candidates. While it is not possible to prove from the evidence why this is the case, the obvious presumption must be that it is caused by racist voters being deterred from voting for an ethnic minority candidate. The effect was strongest in the case of Labour candidates, depressing their vote share by more than three-and-a-half percentage points, but was also present for Liberal Democrats; however, there was no statistically significant loss of votes found in the case of Conservative ethnic minority candidates.
10 April 2002
Media & Brand Communication

BBC Coverage Of Queen Mother's Death "About Right"

Most viewers say BBC showed "enough respect" in its initial week's coverage of the death of the Queen Mother, according to MORI
10 April 2002
Consumer & Shopper

Nearly A Half Of Average Or Below Average Earners Have Not Heard Of Stakeholder Pensions

Research on behalf of Norwich Union, the UK's largest insurer, into stakeholder pensions shows that only just over a half of people earning between 16310,000 and 16325,000 a year say they've heard of stakeholder pensions
10 April 2002
Society

MORI Political Monitor, March 2002

Political Attitudes in Great Britain
10 April 2002
Society

The Queen Mother

The Queen Mother, who died at the weekend, remained popular with the British public to the end of her life. However she was not - despite the wishful thinking of certain newspapers over the last few days - the only popular member of the Royal Family.
5 April 2002
Society

Government Delivery Index

Most of the British public are pessimistic about the government's ability to improve public services, according to the baseline survey for the new MORI Delivery Index. More than half, 54%, say they disagree that "in the long term, this government's policies will improve the state of Britain's public services", whereas only 36% agree.
5 April 2002