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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Today's opinion poll for YouGov in the Sunday Times has the Conservatives ten points ahead of Labour: Conservative 43% (-2%)Labour 33% (+2%)Lib Dem 14% (-1%) Anthony Wells of YouGov and UK Polling Report comments:"The poll was conducted between the 9th...
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Peter Kenyon (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
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Labourhome (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
New YouGov poll for the Sunday Times: Conservative 43% (-2) Labour 33% (+2) LibDems 14% (-1) Looks like Brown's strong leadership during the economic crisis is benefiting the party. Still a long way to go though...
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The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
A few days ago I noted that Politics Home has had a large bulge of traffic from North America. Most of it comes from referrals due to running an information service in the sidebar of the Pollster.com website, which is also owned by Yougov.
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Greater Manchester Fabian Society (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Labour has jumped up to 33points in an opinion poll for YouGov/The Times. The Tories are down three to 43 meaning their poll lead has dropped from 19 points to 10 points in a month. Interestingly the Sunday Time's don't appear to making a big thing of this on their front page !
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Obsessing about any individual poll is a mug’s game, as we at Lib Dem Voice have long argued. However, we have also always said that polls – taken together and observed over a reasonable time period - are useful evidence of trends. And the trend for the party at the moment is, let’s be honest, [...]
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Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
James Forsyth There are two ways of looking at today’s YouGov poll , the first carried out since the announcement of the government’s rescue plan for the banks. The first is to see it as evidence of how the financial crisis is reviving Gordon Brown’s premiership. Labour are up three point to 33 percent—their highest rating with YouGov since February , 59 percent support the government's rescue plan...
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ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
9.30am Greg Hands on CentreRight: Everyone likes the idea of a Swedish model, even in banking ToryDiary: YouGov: Labour boosted by economic crisis ConservativeInternational: Centre right parties squeezed by economic crisis Nick Wood on Platform: An early election is Gordon's...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 48 minutes ago
"The Raised Magician" is how the French press greeted Gordon Brown when he arrived in Paris.
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politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Should you now become a Labour buyer? There have been big moves during the day on the spread-betting markets where punters with deep pockets buy and sell the number of seats each of the parties will get at the next election. The spreads at 2pm BST are featured above. Just ten days ago a buyer of Tory [...]
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Alice the Camel (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
See? I told you to smoke more: A YouGov report has found broad public support for restrictions on smoking, such as the bans on smoking in public places (1). Given that the report was commissioned by the lobby group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), this is perhaps unsurprising; the way such surveys are framed can certainly affect the result. Nonetheless it is true that there has been far less resistance...
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The Poll Bludger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hypothesis one, from Peter Brent at Mumble: “Canada’s one-term government going for re-election (after only 18 months), amidst world economic turmoil, should provide some clue as to how Rudd & co might fare at the next election.” Hypothesis two, from Adam in Canberra at this place: “It’s curious that the financial crisis seems to be working [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
A charity which runs a debt advice centre in Bath says the credit crunch is forcing people to eat less healthy food. Research by Christians Agains Poverty suggests one in three people have turned their backs on healthy food in the last year.
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Mac World UK (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
One-in-five home networks in the UK unprotected Nearly one fifth of UK web users doesn't have encryption on their home network, says Linksys.