An editorial in the Daily Telegraph last month (5 December) suggested that MORI's polls in The Times systematically under-represent Conservative strength, and further that this is because they are conducted face-to-face rather than by telephone. The article cited several arguments in support of its case which were based on factual errors. We wrote to the paper correcting these errors, but it failed to publish our letter. It is not true as they alleged that face-to-face polls tend to find lower Conservative support than telephone polls. Nor is it true that MORI's polls find systematically lower Conservative support than those of the other polling companies. But since some of these misconceptions seem to be widespread, and the Telegraph was only echoing the wishful thinking which seems to be still entrenched in some corners of Conservative Central Office, it is perhaps time for a systematic review of the evidence, taking the whole of the year 2000 as our basis.
Four million TESSA investors don't know the rules on reinvesting their maturing TESSA funds and one fifth1 (21%) of the UK's five million TESSA holders don't know even when their fund matures, HSBC warned today.
Q Do you think the monarchy does or does not have an important role to play in the future of Britain?
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SEVEN out of ten people in Britain believe that smokers who develop lung cancer have brought the disease on themselves, according to a MORI poll for The Cancer Research Campaign.
More than eight out of ten (82%) people believe that companies should be legally required to discuss their closure plans with their workforce, according to a MORI poll for the Transport and General Workers' Union, the UK's largest manufacturing union. The poll is released on the day T&G General Secretary Bill Morris attacked "the unacceptable face of corporate decision making we have seen from Vauxhall in Luton, Ford in Dagenham and Rover in Longbridge," where workers found out about factory closures from the media.
According to recent research undertaken by MORI for the Association of Investment Trust Companies ("AITC"), the British public are a nation of dreamers - they have a dream goal or a dream possession, a little or large luxury that would meet their dreams and aspirations. The only problem is - that's all they have!
