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Public mood ahead of the Budget

Just a couple of days before the Chancellor's Budget statement in the House of Commons, the first post on The Politics Wire gives an overview of public opinion on the economy.
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Testing of the Ballot Paper for the 2012 Local Government Elections in Scotland

Ipsos undertook three rounds of user testing to inform the design of the ballot paper for the 2012 Scottish Local Government elections.
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Scottish Labour Party Spring Conference 2011: an Ipsos Briefing Pack

Ahead of the Scottish Labour Party Spring Conference in Glasgow on Saturday, Ipsos takes a look at the party's polling performance and highlights the key issues that will dominate this year's Holyrood election campaign.
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Scottish Conservative Party Spring Conference 2011: an Ipsos Briefing Pack

As the Scottish Conservative Party's Spring Conference gets underway in Glasgow on Friday, Ipsos take a look at the party's polling performance and highlight the key issues that will dominate this year's Holyrood election campaign.
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Capturing better information on tenant satisfaction

Produced for the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR), this report highlights the current diversity in approaches taken across the sector and proposes minimum standards that all social landlords should achieve in order to obtain robust data on tenant satisfaction.
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Reuters/Ipsos March Political Monitor

One week before the Budget, the full impact of the economic situation is hitting the public.

Half think their personal financial situation will get worse, two in three now think the recession will take more than three years to recover from.

Majority think the government is making the wrong decisions about where to cut spending and Conservative lead over Labour on best economic policies has fallen.

Despite increasing economic concern, Labour making no gains on voting intention.
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SNP Spring Party Conference 2011: an Ipsos Briefing Pack

The SNP meets for its spring party conference this weekend, just a few weeks before embarking on its campaign to win an unprecedented second term in government. Ipsos has produced a briefing pack which charts the party's polling performance and highlights the key issues that will dominate this year's Holyrood election campaign.
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Who cares about AV?

Will the referendum on changing our electoral system really be a damp squib? Our research suggests it might be.
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Scottish Liberal Democrat Spring Party Conference: an Ipsos Briefing Pack

With the Scottish Liberal Democrat Spring Party Conference kicking off in Perth this weekend, Ipsos has produced a briefing pack which charts the party's polling performance and highlights the key issues that will dominate this year's Holyrood election campaign.