Labour has public’s backing for its election platform
Exclusive polling shows broad support for abolishing non-dom tax status and creating a public clean energy company.
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New Year promises won’t resolve our meat problem
Just under a third of Brits say they are going reducetarian this year, but we need more to meet climate…
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Majority of Britons oppose workers earning over £50,000 going on strike
New polling reveals public sympathy for industrial action is influenced by salary levels.
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Huge majority of British voters reject GP charges
As the NHS struggles, exclusive polling shows Britons overwhelmingly oppose the idea of paying for appointments.
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Is support for Scottish independence resurging?
Nicola Sturgeon seems unable to contemplate departing office without the national question being answered.
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How the New Statesman’s midterms forecast triumphed
The NS was the only forecaster to project that the Democrats would retain control of the Senate.
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The Tories’ unpopularity among the young isn’t a woke conspiracy
It isn’t schools and universities that are pushing young people leftwards – it’s the housing crisis and student debt.
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Who will win the US House and Senate?
The New Statesman’s midterm elections forecast looks at whether the Democrats can hold the House on 8 November.
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Democrats must stop allowing Republicans to frame US politics
They need to talk about how popular their achievements are – but not by using the language of Republicans.
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Republicans are surging but Democrats haven’t lost the midterms yet
Joe Biden had a good summer but his party is worried it came too early to impact the November elections.
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Most Conservative voters now want Boris Johnson to resign
Fifty-four per cent of Tory supporters want Johnson to leave office, a 20-point increase since June.
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Why Frank Luntz regrets being a populist
The US pollster on what voters really want.
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Introducing State of the Nation
Our new data site will reveal the country that Britain really is.
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The British public is changing its concept of class
Gen Z and millennials are more likely to associate class with salary and income than the cultural perceptions of their…
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The situation for the Tories is worse than you think
Voters are angry at Boris Johnson everywhere, but they’re especially so in the marginals that matter.
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Tory poll lead hit hard by the Downing Street Christmas party revelations
All three of the recent surveys now show Labour ahead of the Conservatives – one by as much as six…
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How the Owen Paterson scandal reduced the Conservatives’ poll lead
Ben Walker joins the New Statesman Podcast team for a monthly look at the polls.
Did Covid-19 push public opinion in a more left-wing direction?
The landmark British Social Attitudes survey reveals a public more aware of inequality and sympathetic to welfare. But pollster John…
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