Posts Tagged ‘2010 election’
Tue May 4, 2010 14:57 BST |
This is it! This is it!
Only two and a half days till the UK election!
Don’t worry, this is not a party political broadcast. In the interests of preserving Business Monitor International (BMI)’s impartial status, I will not endorse any party ahead of the election. What I will do is offer a brief and perhaps somewhat [Read more...]
Tags: 2010 election, Coalition, Conservatives, hung parliament, Labour, Liberal Democrat, manifesto, opinion polls, UK
Posted in: General, Political Risk, UK
Thu Jul 2, 2009 17:09 BST |
In any Country Risk analyst’s tool kit, opinion polls play a very important role. Finding a large enough data series for serious analysis though is often a problem. However, for the UK there is hardly a better treasure trove of information than Anthony Wells’ excellent website UK Polling Report, where he has collated polling data [Read more...]
Tags: 2010 election, bias, Britain, Conservatives, constituencies, Labour, Liberal Democrats, opinion polls, Tories, UK, voting preferences
Posted in: General, Political Risk, UK
Tue May 5, 2009 11:28 BST |
The BBC marked the 30th anniversary of the election of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by re-running its coverage of the 1979 election on its BBC Parliament television channel on Bank Holiday Monday (The coverage is still available to download for UK viewers over the next week at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074yz8)
Watching the material helped [Read more...]
Tags: 1979, 2010 election, economic crisis, Margaret Thatcher, parallels, parliament, recession, UK
Posted in: General, Political Risk, UK