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Ipsos Political Monitor August / September 2006
Satisfaction with the performance of Tony Blair as prime minister has hit new lows over the past two months, the latest Ipsos poll has found. The prime minister's performance rating is now barely a third of what it was immediately following his landslide election in 1997.
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Ethnic Minority Voters And Non-Voters At The 2005 British General Election
On Saturday 9 September 2006, Dr Roger Mortimore (Ipsos's Senior Political Analyst) spoke at the EPOP Conference in Nottingham*, on "Ethnic Minority Voters and Non-Voters at the 2005 British General Election", delivering a paper by himself and Kully Kaur-Ballagan (Ipsos Head of Ethnic Minority Research). The paper, which draws on Ipsos research conducted for the Electoral Commission after last year's election, explores the turnout and votes of Britain's various Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. Turnout is strongly associated with a positive attitude to elections in general, as might be expected; but there is also some evidence of a strong community effect, with those who live in areas with many other BME residents disproportionately likely to have voted. Surprisingly, there is no evidence that attitudes to the government's policy in Iraq had any significant effect. The findings also illustrate how a high quality research design, including respondents from...
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Volatility And Public Opinion
Some commentators have noted in recent months that Ipsos's voting intention figures are "more volatile" than those of the other companies, which in one sense is true; but they have also assumed that this implies they are less accurate, which is not necessarily the case, and some of them have clearly not understood why our figures sometimes move more dramatically than those in other polls.
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Ipsos Political Survey August
Two thirds of the British public (64%) believe that it is fair to say that Tony Blair is "all spin, but no substance" according to Ipsos's latest political poll exclusively for The Sunday Times. Just 28% of the public say that this criticism is unfair, giving a "spin over substance" index of +36. The public is divided about whether this accusation can be applied to Gordon Brown: 41% say it can and 45% say it cannot (an index of -4). A large proportion of the public have yet to decide about David Cameron, but where people do give an opinion they are more likely to say he is all spin, but no substance. Cameron's spin index is +11 (with 42% saying he is all spin and 31% saying he is not). Opinion about the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell, divides three ways: 28 % agree he is all spin, but no substance; 36 % say he is not; and 36% say they don't know. This gives Campbell an index score of -8.
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The Reputation Of Business In Westminster
This report brings together thirty years of research among this key audience and covers MPs' attitudes towards business and the political and economic landscape in which business operates. Specifically:
The issues MPs are contacted about most frequently by individuals
MPs' economic outlook and how their views compare with other audiences
How MPs' concerns for business and industry have changed since the late 1970s
MPs' views on whether business is meeting its social and environmental responsibilities
The factors MPs take into account when judging companies
The lessons we have learnt from analysing the reputation of individual companies
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Public Say Prevention Is Single Most Important Area For Research Into Age-Related Ill-Health
Preventing ill-health is the public's single most important area for research into ageing, an Ipsos study published today has found. More than twice as many adults in the UK chose research into prevention over research into cure. Research focused on managing conditions and how best to support and care for people who have ill health came second to prevention ahead of cure.
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Perceptions Of England's Northwest 2006
Ipsos undertook a programme of research with residents, businesses and opinion leaders in the Northwest, across the UK as well as Europe and the US (opinion leaders only). All fieldwork was conducted between 6th January and 5th March 2006. The research follows on from similar studies conducted by Ipsos for NWDA in 2001 and 2003 and trends have been included in this report where relevant.
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Views Of English Devolution
Ipsos's latest research, conducted for the English Constitutional Convention, shows that there is increasing public support for England to have its own Parliament.
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Faith In The Leadership Abilities Of Senior Managers Has Declined, Research Suggests
Confidence in the leadership abilities of senior managers has declined since the start of 2005, the latest results of The Worker's Index, a bi-annual survey of employees' feelings and attitudes towards work, reveals today.
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Leading the Pack: Frontiers of Performance in Transport
This report examines the data collected in the 2003/4 Best Value Performance Indicator surveys (BVPIs) for the impact of place on perceptions of transport services, drawing on 2001 Census and other secondary sources to provide context.