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To The Hustings?
There is little in this week's MORI poll for The Times [Political Attitudes in Great Britain for March 2001] which should discourage Tony Blair from calling the general election next week, should he wish to do so, for fear of the political effects. It is true that the public seems profoundly unimpressed with the government's handling of the Foot and Mouth crisis, and that opinion on this issue has deteriorated over the last week (69% were dissatisfied with the way the Government is handling the Foot and Mouth outbreak in the Times poll, conducted on 22-27 March, compared with 52% dissatisfied on 15-17 March when we polled for the Mail on Sunday [FOOT AND MOUTH POLL]). But this dissatisfaction has not fed through into any adverse change in voting intentions: Labour's share is 50%, as it was in January and February.
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Political Attitudes in Great Britain for March 2001
Q1 How would you vote if there were a General Election tomorrow?
[If undecided or refused at Q1]
Q2 Which party are you most inclined to support?
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TIME Magazine Polls Europe's Leaders Of Tomorrow
Survey Reveals Attitudes of Europe's 21 to 35-Year Olds
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Decision day looms
Should he or shouldn't he? Tony Blair still seems determined to call the election for 3 May, though he has yet to make any announcement; the public seem decidedly less enthusiastic. Nevertheless, MORI's poll for the Mail on Sunday [FOOT AND MOUTH POLL] suggested that few of those opposed to holding the election on 3 May feel that if the government were to do so it would make them less likely to vote Labour.
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Before "Essex Man"
As we wait to discover whether the election will indeed be held on the apparently pre-ordained date of 3 May, or whether the ravages of Foot and Mouth disease will eventually force a postponement, a bit of electoral trivia in answer to a question that I was asked last week. Which is the most typical constituency in the country?
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No Chance for Euro Referendum
So now we know - or do we? The referendum on joining the Euro, according to some newspapers' interpretations of the Prime Minister's answer to a question in the Commons, will be held in the first two years of the next Parliament. That wasn't what he said.
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New Heads' Poll Supports Blunkett's Approach To Education Reform - Annex 1
Annex 1 - HeadTeachers' Views of LEAs
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New Heads' Poll Supports Blunkett's Approach To Education Reform
Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett said today that it was important for Government to strike a balance between local autonomy and Government intervention - particularly in school reform.
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Political Attitudes In Great Britain
MORI interviewed a representative quota sample of 2,040 adults aged 18+ at 193 sampling points across Great Britain.
Fieldwork was conducted face-to-face on 1-5 February 2001.
Data are weighted to match the profile of the population.
Survey designed to test responses to the hypothesis presented at QLD1 and QLD2
Because this is a nationwide poll, it is not able to provide us with information for any individual constituency -
Intensive Vote Farming in Barnet
The spread of foot-and-mouth disease through the rural areas has brought the rural vote back to the top of the election agenda - although, at the same time, it has thrown into some doubt whether there will be an election at all when we have all been confidently expecting it, on 3 May. I have already written [Rural Voters - 20 October 2000] about how much smaller and less influential the rural vote is than almost everybody supposes. But even some of those rural areas are simply rural in the sense of not being urban; they are not full of farmers. The genuinely agricultural vote is smaller still.