Politics

Audit Scotland has published the findings of its review of the new Scottish planning system , including findings from the Ipsos research on the views of recent users of the planning system, including householder applicants, agents, developers, and businesses.

Conservatives regain lead over Labour as having the best policies on managing the economy, but half of the public are still pessimistic about the economy

The first batch of the Government's flagship free schools are opening their doors for the first time this month and it is clear that their success or failure will be a key benchmark for the Government's education policy.

Mark Diffley outlines the challenges facing the Scottish Labour Party in its attempts to reconnect with the electorate.

On the day the Scottish Government announced plans for a single national police force in Scotland, an Ipsos poll finds that the majority of Scots oppose the proposal.

Ipsos recently conducted the 2011 survey of Scottish local authority Chief Executives and Finance Directors.

Two-thirds of Scots would vote for all tax-raising powers to be transferred to the Scottish Parliament, while only around a third would vote to separate from the rest of the UK, as revealed in our new poll for The Times.

Our latest poll shows that, among those certain to vote, the SNP's share of the Holyrood constituency vote stands at 49%, up 4 percentage points on their election result.

Two years on from the release of the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, an Ipsos poll finds that the majority of Scots still disagree with the decision to release him.