Politics

Snap Ipsos poll finds half of Americans think the unrest is an attempted coup.

Describing a transport policy as “a potential poll tax on wheels” - after MP Keith Speed’s famous description of rail privatisation - usually adds to jitters about its unpopularity and political jeopardy.

Three in five Britons are satisfied with the job Rishi Sunak is doing as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Ipsos's December 2020 Political Monitor shows the Conservatives and Labour in a dead heat, each on 41%.

Ipsos’s Scotland Political Monitor, run in partnership with STV News, finds support for the SNP remains at very high levels ahead of the May 2021 Scottish Parliament elections.

Latest research from Ipsos shows that when given the choice, more Britons opt for Government to act quickly even if that means not all the evidence is available over waiting, when it comes to a crisis.

New polling from Ipsos for BBC Scotland shows that ratings of how well Boris Johnson has handled the coronavirus pandemic have fallen since May. While ratings of Nicola Sturgeon have also fallen a little, public ratings of how she has handled the pandemic remain far higher.

Favourability ratings for Johnson, Starmer, the Conservatives and Labour largely unmoved following a new national lockdown in England and Corbyn's suspension.

Political opinion polls come under great scrutiny in the run-up to elections and their reputation can swing between criticism and praise in the wake of results. But, if you want to make some sense of the state of opinion at any moment in time, you absolutely need polls. This paper puts polling under the researcher’s spotlight.