As you may have noticed, the end of last week was quite a busy time. I was delighted to join the excellent Sky News team at the Brecon and Radnor by-election count for their through-the-night coverage, and then for their All Out Politics show the following morning. Following that, I also penned a few initial Read more
I’ve had a few appearances in the media over the last few days, commenting on the latest Barometer poll and the broader current political situation. Last Sunday I appeared on BBC Radio Wales, to speak on Vaughan Roderick’s Sunday Supplement show about prospects for the new government: you can find the show here (I appear Read more
Among other questions asked in the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll was one on the ratings of party leaders. This question followed our standard format of asking people to rate a set of politicians on a 0-10 scale, where 0 means ‘strongly dislike’ and 10 means ‘strongly like’, with a Don’t Know option also available. Read more
In these first days of Boris Johnson’s Prime Ministership, and with the Brecon and Radnor by-election coming up this week, the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll provides us with an up-to-date assessment of public attitudes in Wales in these eventful political times. As is always the case, our new poll asked people about their voting Read more
As some of you may have seen, I wrote a short piece for the Spectator on the European election outcome in Wales: you can read it here: https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/labours-welsh-wipeout-should-terrify-jeremy-corbyn/ The choice of headline was not mine… Read more
The European election result is now confirmed – and we can compare the fates of the respective parties not only with how they did in the equivalent contest five years ago, but also with our final Welsh Political Barometer poll, which was published on the Monday before polling day. So how did the parties do? Read more
This week’s Welsh Political Barometer poll asked the following question: “Which of the following do you think would make the best Conservative leader and Prime Minister if Theresa May were to stand down?” These are the results, presented in two columns: for our entire sample, and for those who say they would vote Conservative in Read more
The latest Welsh Political Barometer poll has generated plenty of interest for its findings on voting intentions for the European Parliament election. But those results were far from the only extraordinary things to come out of the latest poll. As per usual, the Barometer poll also carried questions about voting intentions for Westminster and the Read more
The Brexit Party are on course for a huge European election victory in Wales – while both Labour and the Conservatives face historic defeats. These are the headline findings that come from the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll. Our new poll once more provides the latest assessment of the political state of play in Wales. Read more
A number of people have contacted me in recent times, asking about how the electoral system for the forthcoming European Parliament election will work. Well, as they used to say on Blue Peter back in the day, here is one I prepared earlier: http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/electionsinwales/2014/05/22/the-fabulous-mr-dhondt/ Specifically, this was a blog-post I wrote before the last European Read more
