Confounding their critics, especially those within the Conservative Party who had poured scorn on them throughout the campaign, the opinion polls conducted in the last week of the campaign proved the most accurate since 1987, and the exit polls performed remarkably well.
Election Week poll for The Economist, including questions on approval of possible government policies and support for likely party leadership candidates
The MORI / ITV Election 2001 exit poll is based on secret ballots completed by a random sample of voters at 100 polling stations in marginal constituencies across Great Britain. Fieldwork was conducted throughout the polling day from 7am to 8:45pm.
I apologise for neglecting my duties yesterday, between the BBC and ITN, with an interview with Fox News sandwiched in, I failed to file Worcester -3, so that Worcester -2 will double up on postal voting, my intended subject for -3, and tactical voting, planned for today.