New polling data from Ipsos in the UK, conducted 21-23 July 2026, reveals continued high levels of economic anxiety across the nation as Andy Burnham assumes office as Prime Minister.
In recent months there have been some high-profile controversies involving the relationship between public sector workers and the Labour Government. The most recent of these involved below-inflation pay rises for public sector workers, as well as opposition to the Government's public sector reforms — particularly with the NHS.
The Scottish Executive has developed A Strategy for a Scotland with an Ageing Population (published March 2007), titled: "All Our Futures: Planning for a Scotland with an Ageing Population" to address the challenges and opportunities posed by Scotland's ageing population. The aim of the Strategy is to provide the framework for:
Scotland's enterprise in education agenda has been driven by the Scottish Executive's 'Determined to Succeed' strategy. This, in turn, forms part of the Scottish Executive's wider enterprise policy agenda and contributes to the top priority of growing the economy. Within the context of the education sector, part of this entails a renewed vision for Scottish schools and education.
Does it make sense to talk about "British public opinion" as a single phenomenon? Surely the public consists of some many different groups with different interests and different strands of opinion that this is far too simplistic a notion? Well, no, not necessarily.
Q The previous Conservative Government under John Major was accused of sleaze. Do you think the current Labour Government is more or less sleazy than the previous Conservative Government, or is there no difference between the two?
Ipsos Scotland was commissioned by Glasgow City Council to conduct a series of eight large scale residents surveys in twice yearly waves. Each survey doubles as a recruitment exercise for the Glasgow Citizens Panel. The seventh survey in the series was completed in December 2006 and covered a range of topics including community engagement and citizenship, usage of and satisfaction with Council services, neighbourhood problems, the Glasgow Magazine and attitudes towards Young Scot / Kidz cards.
What is it about dying governments? No sooner than the bloom is off the rose, the chancers, the wanderers, the sense of power that suggests to some that laws are for little people and not them, and those who 'just can't help themselves', ascribed to Peter Mandelson after his second fall from grace and before the Prime Minister awarded him his third job, give the government of the day a bad name.
