Posts Tagged ‘Conservatives’
Tue Sep 29, 2009 14:52 UTC |
YouGov has launched a major innovation in British political opinion polling, together with Sky News: a daily tracker poll during the UK party conference season. Normally, we can expect nine or ten polls to be issued every month by the various agencies, so this on first impression seems like a major development which more accurately [Read more...]
Tags: accuracy, Conservatives, election 2010, Labour, margin of error, opinion polls, party conference, Politics, reliability, UK, YouGov
Posted in: General, Political Risk, UK
Thu Sep 17, 2009 16:30 UTC |
Reports that US President Barack Obama will overhaul a plan to build a missile defence shield in the Czech Republic and Poland would appear to represent a major foreign policy shift on Washington’s part, given that the shield was eagerly championed by the Bush administration. The official explanation for Obama’s shift is that Iran’s missiles [Read more...]
Tags: Conservatives, Czech Republic, defence, Iran, Obama, Poland, Russia, US missile defence
Posted in: Emerging Europe, General, Geopolitics, Middle East, Political Risk
Thu Jul 2, 2009 17:09 UTC |
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