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New polling for @SkyNews shows really low levels of trust in journalists among the public.

- 72% don't trust newspapers on the issue of Coronavirus, just 17% do

- 64% don't trust TV journalists on the issue of Coronavirus, just 24% do

news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
Trust in journalism has been dropping for many years:
d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_upload…

But it is particularly noticeable now because levels of trust in leading politicians has jumped up in this crisis.

Suddenly the press are less trusted than the people they are holding to account.
Anecdotally, hearing a lot of criticism for journalists "attacking" the government in the daily press conferences, which does seem a little unfair. Seems like the format is not helping.
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This will probably be interesting to absolutely nobody who isn’t me, but here is a long-ish thread on how we run our Labour members polling:
Step 1 is identifying Labour party members to be surveyed. We do this by running short “mega-polls” to the YouGov panel (which is why we don’t need the permission of the Labour party, or the access to their membership lists).
The scale of this is a little bit crazy, we have probably asked at least a million people if they are members of the Labour party since 2015, and hundreds of thousands since the January cut-off date.
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I think one issue with this is the headline, the poll doesn't show the race narrowing because there hasn't been a previous Labour List poll using this methodology.

labourlist.org/2020/01/exclus…
You can't really compare it to the YouGov poll, because that was conducted differently so it isn't apples to apples.
In terms of accuracy, there is no intrinsic problem with getting your sample from Labour List *if* those members are representative of the wider membership, or if they are not representative in a way you can account for through weighting.
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So I have finally got around to releasing my post election research on why voters left Labour in the election.

Much of this has been said, and none of it should come as a shock, but I think some of the nuance is interesting.

yougov.co.uk/topics/politic…
In the days following the election, we spoke to nearly 500 people who had voted Labour in 2017 but not in 2019.

Not the whole story (because we also need to think about the voters Lab could have lost / won) but given Labour’s vote share fell by nearly 8%, these voters were key.
Firstly, on ordering...

Leadership, or Jeremy Corbyn specifically, was mentioned way more people than anything else, including Brexit.
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