Politics

The Scottish National Party has increased its lead over Labour in voting intention for the Scottish Parliament elections in our latest poll for STV News.

New polling by Ipsos and King's College shows more people across Britain have anxieties about the prospect of Scottish independence than think it will have a positive impact on economic and cultural issues.

With a little less than 200 days to go until Scotland goes to the polls in the independence referendum, our latest poll for STV News shows little change in public opinion compared to our last poll in December 2013.

David Jeans and Emily Gray blog on the importance of NHS Change Day in helping spread innovation across the NHS.

A new Ipsos poll for British Future shows that around four in ten British adults would never consider voting for each of the Conservatives (40%), Liberal Democrats (41%) and UKIP (42%).

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.

Voters believe the welfare system is too generous but also remain committed to fairness and to tackling "causes not symptoms" writes Ben Marshall in the New Statesman.

The Hansard Society's "Tuned in or Turned off? Public attitudes to Prime Minister's Questions" report includes some of the findings of Ipsos's survey for their 11th annual Audit of Political Engagement polling.

The February Ipsos Political Monitor records the public's economic optimism at its highest since May 1997 when Tony Blair and New Labour had just moved into Downing Street