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Pulse Check - July 2025

Little public support for doctors strikes

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.

Dazed and Confused

Has the Recent Cannabis Debate helped or hindered the Tories

Rural Voters

How important is the rural vote? There is in our view entirely too much attention paid to the so-called "rural vote". Questions are frequently raised as to whether Labour's failures to meet the needs and concerns of rural areas might cost it dear at the next election.

New Home Buyers Give Their Verdict On The UK's Major Housebuilders

The vast majority of owners of newly built homes are satisfied with their home but are less impressed with the service provided by their housebuilder. That is the conclusion of the first national customer satisfaction survey of the UK's top housebuilders unveiled today (19th October) by the Housing Forum.

Ethical Consumerism Research

Overall, value for money and the quality of products are seen as most important when purchasing. The way the company is seen to treat its employees is seen as very important by over two in five of the British public, while a third consider its impact on the environment very important. Customer service would be most likely to persuade the public to buy one product over another, when price and quality are consistent, while the brand name or image is seen as most important to those aged under 35.

Poverty And Poor Health Create Isolation In Older People

New MORI research commissioned by the Help the Aged British Gas partnership reveals the wide scale problem of isolation in older people in Britain today. The survey findings show the disturbing link between low incomes and poor health and the scourges of too many older people's lives - isolation and loneliness.

Drugs Poll

QV1 How would you vote if there were a General Election tomorrow? (If undecided or refused at Q1) QV2 Which party are you most inclined to support?

Political Attitudes in Great Britain October 2000

England Football Survey