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UK politics opinion polls

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Could the Lib Dems become the official opposition?

    A Conservative meltdown plus favourable opinion polling could help Ed Davey’s party chart a path to second place

    Ed Davey high fives someone while pushing a yellow wheelbarrow
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK general election poll tracker

    Live-updating state of the parties polling ahead of the general election on July 4

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  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak warns voting for Reform will hand ‘blank cheque’ to Labour

    Thursday evening poll shows Nigel Farage ahead of Tories

    Rishi Sunak arrives at Swabian Castle for a dinner at the G7 summit in Brindisi, Italy, on Thursday
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    ExplainerUK general election 2024
    The pollsters’ conundrum: how big or small a victory could Labour win?

    Significant potential swings, tactical voting and undecided voters may all play havoc with forecasting models

    Montage of a hand casting a ballot and charts
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Use the FT’s model to predict the UK election result

    Use our model to estimate the result in every constituency using the latest polls or what you think the result will be

  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Assisted dying: an idea whose time has come

    The rights of the terminally ill to choose a better death need careful consideration

    Close up of son holding his mothers hands in hospital
  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    Inside Politics
    UK’s undecided voters offer little solace to Tories

    Conservatives could help matters by ending public squabbles and rallying around its leader

    Rishi Sunak
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    News in-depthConservative party UK
    Can Sunak stage the biggest electoral comeback in decades?

    FT polling analysis shows there is almost no way for Conservative party to remain in power

    Rishi Sunak
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why election polls can be completely wrong

    Examples from around the world show that voters are not predictable

    Keir Starmer delivers a speech
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Poll-driven politics does nobody any favours

    One-dimensional survey questions foster one-dimensional debate

    Five hands from people of different ethnic groups reaching up against a backdrop of a barchart
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Sunak’s attempted reset is all pain, no gain

    PM wants to show willingness to confront tough decisions, but his announcements are so far unhelpful to his falling ratings

    Rishi Sunak stands at a podium featuring the words: ‘Long-term decisions for a brighter future’
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    Inside Politics
    What first poll in Nadine Dorries’ seat tells us, plus its caveats

    Past attempts at temperature taking in constituencies shows challenge of getting a representative sample

    Mid Bedfordshire MP Nadine Dorries
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    UK politics
    Labour election victory at risk from undecided voters, UK pollsters say

    Sunak well placed to win over a large bloc of floating voters despite Starmer’s substantial poll lead, survey suggests

    Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks to supporters in Kent after a positive set of local results in May
  • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
    FT live news
    Live news updates from October 18: Russian missiles hit Kyiv for second day, Goldman Sachs announces overhaul
  • Friday, 7 October, 2022
    News in-depthLiz Truss
    How Liz Truss is out of sync with the British public

    Polling suggests there is little appetite for PM’s policies to improve economic growth

  • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
    FT live news
    UK economy updates from September 29: Kwarteng stands by tax cuts, Truss blames ‘global’ factors
  • Saturday, 20 November, 2021
    Paula Surridge
    Polling changes expose a chink in the Conservatives’ electoral armour

    Labour needs a way to turn indecision among 2019 Tory voters into a positive choice to vote for the alternative

    Green and Labour party campaign sings stand outside houses. In previous elections, a substantial portion of those who said they would vote Green in fact voted Labour on polling day
  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    A Covid poll with some very different findings to *that* viral Ipsos one

    A recent Ipsos MORI/Economist poll on Covid restrictions was redone along the lines of our suggestions and the results are starkly different.

  • Sunday, 11 July, 2021
    Rana Foroohar
    Spacs are falling short of their promises

    Plenty of people have been buying into their success story but research points to risk for investors

  • Monday, 21 June, 2021
    Brexit
    Brexit poll shows ‘limited enthusiasm’ for UK-EU trade deal

    Five years on from referendum, 4 out of 5 Britons surveyed say they would still vote same way

  • Wednesday, 5 May, 2021
    Poll tracker: how will the SNP fare in Scotland’s May elections?

    The FT has updated its analysis of opinion polls ahead of Scottish and Welsh votes

    A montage of the Wales and Scotland flags
  • Monday, 19 April, 2021
    Scottish independence
    Interactive calculator: How will Alex Salmond’s new party affect Scottish elections?

    Use the FT’s tool to see whether Alba will help or hinder pro-independence parties

  • Sunday, 18 April, 2021
    Scottish independence
    Half of UK thinks Scotland should be allowed second independence referendum

    Poll reveals less than a quarter of people think UK will exist in current form a decade from now

    Supporters of Scottish independence at a rally in Glasgow in 2019
  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Scottish independence
    Polls in Scotland show Sturgeon hit by handling of Salmond claims

    Nationalist colleagues fear SNP’s chances of winning a majority in May elections could be damaged

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    The Big Read
    Underestimating Trump: the US polling industry under fire

    After Joe Biden’s narrower-than-expected victory in some key states forecasters face a harsh reckoning

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