Politics

On the eve of a major conference on the nature of political leadership, hosted by King's College London and Ipsos, new polling and analysis from Ipsos shows that the public's average satisfaction ratings of the three main party leaders combined are lower than we have ever seen at an equivalent point before an election.

Ipsos’s work on the best councils looks at what distinguishes them from authorities that never seem to get it together.

With fewer than nine months to go until referendum polling day, new research reveals that over four in 10 voters in Scotland do not feel well informed about the issues being debated in the campaign.

New research published today sets out public attitudes in Scotland towards a range of issues around local democracy and local government.

The use of behavioural economics in research has been a healthy injection to the market research industry, making sure that the quirks of human behaviour are not only acknowledged, but cherished.

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.

Ben Page looks back on 2013's winners and losers.

This is the smallest gap between the top and second issues facing Britain, and the lowest concern about the economy since 2008.

Our December 2013 Political Monitor featuring the latest voting intention trends, satisfaction in party leaders, economic optimism and this month the relative popularity of George Osborne, Ed Balls and Boris Johnson.