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Economic optimism falls to record low as concern over inflation rises

The latest Ipsos Economic Optimism Index (EOI) reveals that net economic optimism in Britain has fallen to the lowest levels ever recorded since Ipsos began collecting this data in 1978. In the latest data, collected 8-14 April 2026, 78% of Britons expect the economy to get worse over the next 12 months (up 3ppts since last month), the highest level recorded since the Index began.
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Economist/Ipsos April 2014 Issues Index

Economic concerns, both personal and general, continue to dominate; 36% of the public mention the economy amongst the most important issues facing Britain however this remains the lowest percentage to do so since June 2008.
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Economist/Ipsos March 2014 Issues Index

Our latest Ipsos Issues Index for the Economist sows that concern about the economy has fallen as the economy continues on a path to recovery.
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Economist/Ipsos February 2014 Issues Index

The February Economist/Ipsos issues index shows that, after January's dead heat between the economy and race/immigration concern about the latter has fallen by 7 percentage points to 34%, meaning that the economy is once again uncontested as the most important issue facing Britain today.
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Economist/Ipsos January 2014 Issues Index

The first Economist/Ipsos issues index of 2014 shows that concern about race relations/immigration has increased to become, jointly with the economy, the most important issue facing Britain
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2013 Economist/Ipsos Aggregate Issues Index data

Ipsos's aggregated data from all 12 months of our Issues Index surveys, with the top 10 most important issues (along with EU/Europe) broken down by gender, by age, ethnicity, social class and by voting intention. This is based on a total of more than 10,000 interviews, aggregated from the 12 individual polls.
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Economist/Ipsos December 2013 Issues Index

This is the smallest gap between the top and second issues facing Britain, and the lowest concern about the economy since 2008.
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Economist/Ipsos November 2013 Issues Index

In this month's Issues Index for The Economist, we have recorded the highest ever concern about both poverty/inequality and low pay/fair wages.
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Economist/Ipsos October 2013 Issues Index

In a month in which energy prices have dominated many of the headlines, a fifth of the public (19%) are now concerned about prices/inflation. This is an increase of 8 percentage points since September
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Economist/Ipsos September 2013 Issues Index

Concern about defence/foreign affairs climbs to highest level since the Libyan crisis in April 2011, though the economy celebrates its fifth anniversary as the most important issue facing Britain.
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