Q1 How would you vote if there were a General Election tomorrow?
[If undecided or refused at Q1]
Q2 Which party are you most inclined to support?
Base: 1,935
The public services in Britain follow their own agenda, not what people want them to do. This is the finding of an opinion poll commissioned from MORI by the Adam Smith Institute. The conclusions are published today as a report entitled The Wrong Package, and co-authored by Dr Madsen Pirie & Professor Robert Worcester.
As the pace of the election build-up has temporarily slowed, let us take the chance to look over the details of the battlefield - that is, the minds of the British electorate.
Tony Blair's stand against proposed manufacturing job losses is likely to find strong support among Government MPs, according to MORI's regular survey of Members of Parliament.
Sir Robert Worcester wrote this article for the April issue of Parliamentary Monitor before the postponement of the election from the expected May 3 was announced. Now we know that the Reuters 'Experts' were wrong even on the prediction of the election date, where he agreed with them, his remarks on the reliability of the pundits seem more relevant still.
More people wanted to come out of Europe than to stay in, according to a MORI poll for the British Democracy Campaign. Of those who expressed an opinion, 52% were in favour of leaving the EU right now.
MORI poll for the Economist, including measurements of Best Party on Key issues and Most Capable Prime Minister, conducted during what was then expected to be the last week before the election was called
MORI's political polls frequently include a question asking respondents how they voted at the last general. However, although the responses are useful to us in a number of ways, we do not expect them to be an entirely accurate reflection of how the respondents did, in fact, vote. Consequently the responses of a representative sample will NOT normally match the actual result of the last election, and the fact that a sample's recalled vote differs from the election result is not evidence that the sample is unrepresentative.
