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.
"Tories face poll meltdown" is the headline in the Guardian today, although you would not know it from the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4. Despite the headline over the splash in the newspaper, it didn't make the opening news wrap at 6 am, What the Papers Say at 6:15 am, or mention at all in the first half hour of the programme.
The public is considerable less interested in the parties' election manifestos at this election than in 1997, figures from a previously unpublished MORI survey conducted just over a week ago, reveal.
Latest Rasmussen/Independent Findings
Labour Party Private Poll Released
NOP/Sunday Times Poll
Finance Directors Believe Business Matters Ignored In Campaigns
Voter Apathy Among Young
The strange, slow tempo of this election campaign, unusually punctuated by two Bank Holiday weekends, seems to fit this election, which has failed to capture the public imagination or interest, rather well. The projected turnout is stubbornly refusing to shift upwards.
Once again most of the proprietors of the Sunday newspapers have kept their money in their pockets and left the field to NOP in the Sunday Times, who have Labour on 49%, the Tories on 30%, Lib Dems on 14% and others at 7%. Our model projects this to a 235 seat Labour majority, the BBC's natty model (worth a look) has it at 227. On ours, this result would cost the Tories 19 seats off their 1997 165, add another 28 to Labour's 419, and drop the Liberal Democrats by 8, from 46 at the last election.
The changes in the image of the parties since last Autumn, as revealed in our poll published in The Times this morning, illustrate clearly why Labour seems to be winning this election so easily.
Times 2001 Campaign Polls Wave 3
Latest Gallup Findings: Little Change In Voting Intentions
Hitchhikers' Guide For The Candidates
System Three/Herald Election Survey In Scotland
Two Thirds Of Young People Not Intend To Vote
