Posts Tagged ‘Labour’
Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:39 UTC |
We are now seeing the first major effects of the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. National governments have finally decided on the appointments for the new roles of president of the European Council and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Both are going to be filled by politicians, who, to put it charitably, [Read more...]
Tags: Ashton, Belgium, EU, EU Presidency, France, Germany, High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Labour, Lisbon Treaty, Politics, Tony Blair, UK, Van Rompuy
Posted in: Eurozone, General, Political Risk, UK
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 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