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.
Q I am going to read out a list of problems facing Britain today. I would like you to tell me whether you think the Conservative party, the Labour party or the Liberal Democrats has the best policies on each problem.
The Labour Party at the 1997 general election was rewarded with the biggest landslide since the War. 419 Labour MPs took their seats in the House of Commons across from just 165 Tories and 46 Liberal Democrats and 29 others including 19 from Northern Ireland, an overall majority of 179. Labour won, going away, with a 44 percent share of the vote to the Conservatives' 32 percent and the Liberal Democrats' 17 percent.
MORI's monthly Political Monitor, conducted for The Observer, between 10 and 14 September shows that the Conservatives have one point lead over Labour among those who say they are certain to vote in an immediate General Election. This is the first time since July 2002 that MORI's Political Monitor has shown a Conservative lead.
MORI's monthly Political Monitor, conducted for The Observer, between 10 and 14 September shows that the Conservatives have one point lead over Labour among those who say they are certain to vote in an immediate General Election. This is the first time since July 2002 that MORI's Political Monitor has shown a Conservative lead.
New research carried out by MORI, on behalf of Corporate Edge, shows NGOs and CSR experts are highly supportive of proposed Operating and Financial Review (OFR) legislation, while institutional investors, the intended audience for the proposed report, still need convincing.
An increasing number of adults in Scotland believe the Scottish Parliament has achieved 'nothing at all' since it was established in 1999, according to a survey by MORI Scotland. The project, for Scottish Television's 'Politics Now' programme, shows more than a third (36%) believe the parliament has achieved 'nothing at all' compared with 14% who believed this in February 2001.
The decline of turnout in British elections in the last few years has created something approaching a panic in the political establishment and has left the Electoral Commission and other interested bodies with an acute problem in political marketing. What has resulted is both the commissioning of research to explore the reasons for non-voting and a rash of suggested solutions. This paper discusses newly-published evidence about the way the public views voting and how this is related to other attitudinal and behavioural characteristics commonly treated collectively as components of "activism" or "good citizenship". It also considers the implications of these and other findings for some of the suggested solutions to the turnout problem.
