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Britain's Views On The Monarchy - 2002
Research commissioned by ITV1's 'Tonight with Trevor McDonald' shows that three in four of the British population (77%) will be celebrating the Queen's Golden Jubilee this weekend, either directly or by following media coverage.
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Single European Currency Tracker, May 2002
Our latest MORI poll (carried out just after the 'Paxman' interviews) suggests that PM Blair's pro-EMU comments have failed to generate much rise in public support for EMU entry.
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Adoption: The Baby And The Bathwater
This morning's widespread press discussion of last night's Commons vote to allow adoption by unmarried couples (including same-sex couples) makes much of the political ructions that the issue has caused in the Conservative Party, but there is little reference to public opinion on the issue.The issue is not yet resolved. Separate amendments defining that a couple can be of the same sex or different sex will be voted on next week; and the final bill may still be blocked in the Lords.
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Architectural Superstars Leave English Cold
The English people are passionate about buildings but don't care a jot who designs them, is the main finding of a major new survey published today by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and conducted by MORI.
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British Public Supports EU Directive on GM Food
A new MORI poll released today demonstrates that the British public supports the EU initiative which would make it compulsory to label all food containing GM ingredients or derivatives. 76% said the labelling of all food with GM ingredients should be made compulsory.
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Public Service Reform: Measuring and Understanding Customer Satisfaction
This report presents the findings from a review of approaches to measuring and understanding customer satisfaction with public services, carried out by the MORI Social Research Institute for the Office for Public Services Reform (OPSR) at the Cabinet Office.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.