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Sep 24 5 tweets 4 min read
Labour and Keir Starmer's favourability ratings have fallen to a new post-election low

Keir Starmer
Favourable: 30% (-14 from 8 Jul)
Unfavourable: 60% (+13)

Labour party
Favourable: 32% (-15)
Unfavourable: 59% (+13)

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Image Negative attitudes towards Labour have not crystallised just yet. Most Britons (54%) still say they are willing to give the new government the benefit of the doubt

Have high hopes, think they will do well: 19% (-2 from 20 Jun)
Do not have high hopes, but give benefit of doubt: 35% (=)
Do not have high hopes, think they will do badly: 38% (+5)

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Sep 17 4 tweets 3 min read
25 years after devolution for Scotland, and 10 years after the independence referendum, what constitutional set-up do Scots support having?

Devolution, more powers: 51% support
Devolution, current powers: 46%
Autonomy within UK: 42%
Full independence: 41%
Abolition of devolution: 21%
Devolution, fewer powers: 19%

yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…Image Which constitutional set-ups for Scotland are popular with the different parties?

Top 3 with 2024 Labour voters
Devolution, current powers: 56% support
Devolution, more powers: 43%
Autonomy within UK: 35%

Top 3 with 2024 SNP voters
Full independence: 85%
Devolution, more powers: 85%
Autonomy within UK: 67%

Top 3 with 2024 Conservative voters
Abolition of devolution: 58%
Devolution, fewer powers: 51%
Devolution, current powers: 41%

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Sep 17 7 tweets 4 min read
With the 10 year anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum tomorrow, support for 'Yes' and 'No' among voters stands at effectively the same level as a decade ago

No: 56% (+1 from 2014)
Yes: 44% (-1)

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Image But 'No' supporters are less likely to say their view on Scottish independence is strongly held

% saying their views are strongly held:
All Scots: 73%
Yes supporters: 90%
No supporters: 78%

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Aug 27 4 tweets 3 min read
A hypothetical merger of the Conservatives and Reform UK divides the Tory membership, four in ten supportive and half opposed

% of Conservative members...
Support: 42%
Oppose: 51%

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Image Nonetheless, most Conservative members feel the party should move to the right and primarily target Reform UK voters over the next parliament

% of Conservative members saying party should...
Move to right: 51%
Move to centre: 34%
Stay where it is: 12%

% saying party should primarily target...
Reform UK voters: 50%
Labour voters: 25%
Lib Dem voters: 16%
Some other group: 4%

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Aug 6 9 tweets 5 min read
Britons tend to think that Keir Starmer is handling the riots badly

Well: 31%
Badly: 49%

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Image 52% of Britons think the police are handling the recent riots well

While 61-69% of Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem voters agree, this figure falls to 36% of Reform UK voters

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Aug 6 9 tweets 6 min read
How have the public reacted to the recent riots?

Only 7% of Britons support the riots, 8% have sympathy for the views of the rioters, and just 12% think the riots are justified

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Image Reform UK voters are the most likely to have positive opinions of the riots and rioters, although this is still a minority view among these voters

Support the riots
Reform: 21%
Con: 9%
Lab/LD: 1-3%

Have sympathy for the views of the rioters
Reform: 25%
Con: 8%
Lab/LD: 2-4%

Think the riots are justified
Reform: 33%
Con: 16%
Lab/LD: 2-4%

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Jul 17 4 tweets 3 min read
When asked to rank parties in order of preference, Labour are still Britons’ overall favourite party, but the Lib Dems ultimately have broader popularity – being more people’s second or third favourite party.

Ranked first
Labour 28%
Conservatives 21%
Reform UK 18%
Greens 17%
Lib Dems 13%

Ranked first, second or third
Lib Dems 79%
Labour 70%
Greens 60%
Conservatives 43%
Reform UK 41%

yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…Image Overall, fewer than one in five Britons are consistently right-wing in their party preferences, i.e. rank the Conservatives and Reform UK ahead of every other party, compared to 40% who rank all major progressive parties ahead of them.

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Jul 8 11 tweets 7 min read
How Britain voted in 2024: our study of 35,000 voters conducted since the election breaks down the election result by age, gender, education, past vote and a host of other factors 👇

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Image Age continues to be a key factor in how Britons vote, with younger adults mostly backing left wing parties and older adults tending to vote for right wing parties.

How 18-24 year olds voted
Labour: 41%
Green: 18%
Lib Dem: 16%
Reform UK: 9%
Conservative: 8%
Other: 8%

How 70+ year olds voted
Conservative: 46%
Labour: 20%
Reform UK: 15%
Lib Dem: 11%
Green: 3%
Other: 5%

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Jul 3 4 tweets 3 min read
Final YouGov MRP shows Labour on course for historic election victory

Labour: 431 (+229 from GE2019 result)
Con: 102 (-263)
Lib Dem: 72 (+61)
SNP: 18 (-30)
Reform UK: 3 (+3)
Plaid: 3 (-1)
Green: 2 (+1)

Fieldwork: 19 June - 2 July

yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…Image Our final call vote share, based on our MRP, is...

Labour: 39%
Conservative: 22%
Reform UK: 15%
Lib Dem: 12%
Green: 7%
SNP: 3%
Plaid: 1%
Other: 2%

Fieldwork: 19 June - 2 July

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Jun 19 11 tweets 6 min read
Our new MRP has the Conservatives on their lowest seat tally in the party’s almost 200-year history

Labour: 425 (+223)
Conservative: 108 (-257)
Lib Dem: 67 (+56)
SNP: 20 (-28)
Reform UK: 5 (+5)
Plaid: 4 (±0)
Green: 2 (+1)

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Image Implied vote share from our latest MRP

Labour: 39%
Conservative: 22%
Reform UK: 15%
Lib Dem: 12%
Green: 7%
SNP: 3%
Plaid Cymru: 1%
Other: 2%

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Jun 3 7 tweets 4 min read
Our first MRP of the 2024 general election shows Labour winning a majority of 194, larger than even Tony Blair's landslides

Labour: 422 (+220 from GE2019)
Conservative: 140 (-225)
Lib Dem: 48 (+37)
SNP: 17 (-31)
Green: 2 (+1)
PC: 2 (-2)
Reform UK: 0 (=)

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Image Want to see the results in your constituency? You can delve deeper into our MRP data and find further analysis on our election hub:
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May 24 8 tweets 5 min read
Mega-poll mega-thread/ How does voting intention look as the campaign kicks off?

First up: age. Age will once again be a key factor in how people vote, and currently Labour are ahead among every age group except the over-70s

Labour / Tory vote by age group
18-24: 57% / 8%
25-29: 59% / 9%
30-39: 60% / 10%
40-49: 52% / 15%
50-59: 46% / 19%
60-69: 34% / 27%
70+: 25% / 39%

yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…Image Education level is also a key factor in voting intention – those with more education qualifications are more likely they are to vote Labour/a left wing party

Low (GCSE or below): 35% Lab / 28% Con (+22% Ref UK)
Medium: 43% Lab / 22% Con
High (degree or above): 55% Lab / 13% Con

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May 17 4 tweets 3 min read
Should schools teach about gender identity?

The government says they shouldn’t, but 60-61% of people say sex education should teach that people can be transgender or non-binary (including 66-67% of parents)

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Image What do Britons say should be covered in sex education teaching in schools?

People can be trans/non-binary: 60-61%
Explicit discussion of sexual acts: 68%
Pornography: 72%
Revenge porn: 77%
People can be gay/bi: 78%
Forced marriage: 79%
Negative effects of porn: 82%
Stalking: 87%
Sending naked pics of under-18s is a crime: 88%
Grooming: 89%
Un/healthy relationships: 90%
Consent: 90%
Sexual harassment: 91%
STIs: 92%
Staying safe, appropriate boundaries and reporting concerns: 92%
Contraception: 92%
Conception and birth: 93%

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Feb 22 7 tweets 4 min read
Saturday marks the 2nd anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Our Eurotrack+US survey finds attitudes to the conflict remain largely the same as a year ago

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Image Two years in, which side do European and US publics think has the upper hand in Ukraine?

Most common answer:
🇪🇸 Russia (58%)
🇺🇸 Russia (36%)

🇸🇪 Neither (48%)
🇮🇹 Neither (46%)
🇩🇪 Neither (42%)
🇬🇧 Neither (42%)
🇩🇰 Neither (42%)
🇫🇷 Neither (39%)

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Jan 30 8 tweets 5 min read
🧵/ We’ve examined headline voting intention from 14,000 voters over the last 3 months to take a detailed look at voting demographics as we head towards the likely 2024 general election

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Image Age will once again be a key factor in how people vote, and currently Labour are ahead among every age group except the over-70s

Labour / Tory vote by age group

18-24: 56% / 9%
25-29: 59% / 10%
30-39: 58% / 12%
40-49: 52% / 16%
50-59: 43% / 24%
60-69: 33% / 31%
70+: 23% / 43%

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Aug 11, 2023 8 tweets 5 min read
🧵 / Britons have a more positive opinion of lesbian and gay, bisexual, and transgender people than lesbian and gay, bisexual, and transgender people think

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Image How gay and lesbian people think the public views gay + lesbian people

Positive: 54% (7% “very” positive)
Neutral: 26%
Negative: 19%

How Britons say they personally view gay + lesbian people

Positive: 54% (38% “very” positive)
Neutral: 36%
Negative: 7%

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May 25, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Generally speaking, do you think the level of immigration into Britain over the last ten years has been too high, too low or about right?

Too high: 57%
About right: 17%
Too low: 11%

yougov.co.uk/topics/politic… Image Do you think the level of immigration into Britain over the last ten years has been good or bad for the country?

Mostly good: 24%
Mostly bad: 33%
Both good and bad: 33%

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Apr 17, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
One in eight Britons (13%) turned to private healthcare in the last 12 months, with a further 27% considering it

yougov.co.uk/topics/health/… Image For what kind of treatment did people turn to private healthcare?

Non-emergency appointment: 48% of those who used private healthcare in the last 12 months
Routine appointment: 20%
Minor illness/injury: 17%
Emergency: 10%

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Mar 22, 2023 6 tweets 4 min read
Amid a growing crisis in dentistry, 10% of Britons say they’ve carried out their own dental work (6% in the last 2 years)

A third of those have pulled out, or tried to pull out, their own teeth.

yougov.co.uk/topics/politic… Image A fifth of Britons (22%) are not registered with a dentist, and 37% of those who aren’t say it’s because they can’t find an NHS dentist while 23% of them don’t think they can afford treatment

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Mar 20, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Two decades on from the beginning of the conflict, more than half of Britons (54%) think the Iraq War increased the risk of terrorism in Britain, while 41% say it made the world less safe and 43% think it made the lives of ordinary Iraqis worse

yougov.co.uk/topics/politic… Image Do you think the United States and Britain were right or wrong to take military action against Iraq?

ALL BRITONS
Wrong: 47%
Right: 23%

CONSERVATIVE
Wrong: 47%
Right: 29%

LABOUR
Wrong: 57%
Right: 17%

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Mar 20, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
A third of Britons would support social media checks becoming a standard part of the job application process – and twice as many support checks for jobs working with children

ALL JOBS
Support: 32%
Oppose: 53%

JOBS WITH CHILDREN
Support: 64%
Oppose: 26%
yougov.co.uk/topics/society… Image If a prospective employer asked you to show your social media profiles as a condition of getting the job, how willing would you be to do so?

ALL BRITONS
Willing: 34%
Unwilling: 39%

18 TO 24-YEAR-OLDS
Willing: 50%
Unwilling: 35%

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