Labour party
Favourable: 32% (-15)
Unfavourable: 59% (+13)
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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)
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%
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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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%
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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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%
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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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%
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%
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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.
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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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%
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%
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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
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)
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%
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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Two years in, which side do European and US publics think has the upper hand in Ukraine?
Most common answer:
🇪🇸 Russia (58%)
🇺🇸 Russia (36%)
🧵/ 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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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
🧵 / 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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How gay and lesbian people think the public views gay + lesbian people
Non-emergency appointment: 48% of those who used private healthcare in the last 12 months
Routine appointment: 20%
Minor illness/injury: 17%
Emergency: 10%
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.
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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
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
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Do you think the United States and Britain were right or wrong to take military action against Iraq?
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…
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?