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IoS / Sunday Mirror Political Poll

A political poll of behalf of the Independent on Sunday and the Sunday Mirror.

Date Published: 18 Jun 2011

Categories: Energy | Media | Politics | Public and communities | Technology & Telecoms | UK

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Ed Miliband’s leadership rating drops 10 points in month


Voting intention
Con       37% (-1)
Lab        37% (-2)
LD          11% (-)
Others   15% (+3)
 
Change since Independent on Sunday/Sunday Mirror ComRes online poll published 15 May.  
 
Ed Miliband is turning out to be a good leader of the Labour Party.
                                    Dec      Jan       Apr      May      June
Agree:                         17%      22%      24%      22%     18%      
Disagree:                      32%      35%      38%    39%      45%
Don’t know:                  50%      43%      37%     39%     37%
Net agree:                    -15        -13        -14       -17       -27
 
Andrew Hawkins, ComRes chairman, comments: “The problem for Ed Miliband is that when voters come off the fence, they are more likely to disagree that he is turning out to be a good leader.”
Of Labour voters 41% agree; but 25% disagree and 34% say that they do not know
 
Nick Clegg is turning out to be a good leader of the Liberal Democrats.
                                    Dec      Jan       Apr      May      June    

Agree:                         26%      28%      24%      21%     20%
Disagree:                      49%      49%      55%    56%      57%
Don’t know:                  25%      23%      21%     24%     23%

Net agree:                     -15        -21        -31        -35        -37

 

·         52% of Lib Dem voters agree as well as 33% of Conservative voters

David Cameron is turning out to be a good Prime Minister.
                                    Dec      Jan       Apr      May      June
Agree:                         38%      38%      37%      39%     37%
Disagree:                      41%      43%      46%    43%      44%
Don’t know:                  21%      19%      17%     18%     19%

Net agree:                     -3         -5         -9         -4         -7

We asked whether David Miliband, Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper would be a better Labour leader.

David Miliband would be a better Labour leader than Ed Miliband
 
Agree: 27%
Disagree: 17%
Don’t know: 57%
 
Ed Balls would be a better Labour leader than Ed Miliband
 
Agree: 10%
Disagree: 40%
Don’t know: 50%
 
Yvette Cooper would be a better Labour Leader than Ed Miliband
 
Agree: 7%
Disagree: 37%
Don’t know: 57%
 
Andrew Hawkins, ComRes chairman, comments: “Worryingly for Ed Miliband, more Labour voters agree that David would be a better leader than disagree – 29% to 19% with 51% who don’t know. David Miliband appeals far more to men, and – importantly – to the wealthier income group AB.”

The Labour party is unelectable as the party of government as long as Ed Miliband is its leader
 
Agree: 33%
Disagree: 28%
Don’t know: 39%

·         17% of Labour voters agree (52% disagree)

The NHS would be safer under Labour than under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition
 
Agree: 34%
Disagree:37%
Don’t know: 30%
 
Nick Clegg

Nick Clegg deserves some credit for making the Conservatives think again about their NHS changes.
                        May                  June
Agree:              49%                  49%
Disagree:          26%                  27%
Don’t know:      25%                  24%

The Liberal Democrats would be more popular if they replaced Nick Clegg as leader
 
Agree: 25%
Disagree: 34%
Don’t know: 40%

Spending cuts

The Government is cutting public spending in a way that is fair to every section of society
                            Nov        Dec            Feb       June
Agree                   32%        30%           25%      25%
Disagree              52%        53%            59%     60%
 
I expect to be worse off personally as a result of the spending cuts
                            Nov        Dec            Feb       June
Agree                   65%        66%           69%      67%
Disagree              16%        16%           16%      16%

Methodology note:

 
ComRes interviewed 2,008 GB adults online on 15 and 16 June 2011. Data were weighted to be representative of all adults and by past vote recall. ComRes is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules.

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