My apologies that the blog has been quiet for a few weeks. However, there has been the little matter of the day job… In the meantime – well, politics certainly hasn’t been dull, has it? In additional to the ongoing saga of Brexit, we now have the reality of MPs breaking away from both the Read more
I thought it would be appropriate to round off the year on the blog by summarising the electoral year just finishing. 2018 did not see a general election in Wales – although one occasionally seemed possible – nor an Assembly election. Although we had a number of opinion polls during the year (and from three Read more
As blog readers may be aware, earlier in December I made my first foray into the world of podcast presenting, with the launch of The After Party. Just before Christmas, I recorded the second episode. For this, I was very pleased to be joined by Carwyn Jones, just over a week after he had stood Read more
Among other questions asked in the recent Sky Data Welsh poll was one on the ratings of party leaders. This question followed the now-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
The voting intention figures produced by the first ever Sky Data Welsh opinion poll have caused quite a stir. The projection from the poll for the Abolish the Assembly (ATA) party to win two regional list seats was the first time ever that the party had been projected to win representation in the institution that Read more
The first ever Sky Data poll in Wales covers a variety of topics. For this first set of results, I am going to focus on what the poll suggests about the electoral state of the parties in Wales: voting intentions for Westminster and the Assembly. For the poll, we asked standard voting intention questions for Read more
I’ve decided to launch a podcast. I’m calling it The After Party, and I’ll be using it to explore some of the fascinating political issues of the day with a wide variety of interesting people. For the inaugural episode, I was delighted to speak to former student protestor, union activist and later government minister, Dr Kim Read more
Our ‘Bonus Barometer’ poll was constructed mainly around the parliamentary ‘meaningful vote’ –which is now, it appears, not going to happen – and Brexit. But the poll also gives figures on voting intentions for Westminster and the Assembly. Our new poll puts support for the main parties as follows (with changes on the previous Barometer Read more
Yesterday was an historic day in Welsh politics, with the election of Mark Drakeford as the new leader of the Welsh Labour party – and, almost certainly, the next First Minister of Wales. The election result brings to a close an extraordinary period in Welsh politics – a few months in which all the parties Read more
