The two leading political magazines in Britain, the New Statesman and The Spectator, have both carried online articles today about findings from the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll. The New Statesman piece, about the improvement in public perceptions of the First Minister, is here: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/wales/2020/06/mark-drakefield-welsh-first-minister-covid-labour And you can read The Spectator piece, about how I Read more
(This piece first appeared on the Nation.Cymru site) The highest level of support yet recorded for Welsh independence is among the stand out findings from the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll. As is usual, the latest Barometer poll asked several questions assessing public attitudes to how Wales should be governed. First, we asked two parallel Read more
If the last few years in politics have taught us nothing else, they should surely have made us aware that political fortunes can change very rapidly. In a context where a far lower proportion of voters are life-long supporters of one party than was once the case, what goes up can also go down – Read more
In these troubled times, what could lift the spirits of the nation more than a new Welsh Political Barometer poll? Well, a few things possibly. Nonetheless, along with YouGov and ITV Wales, we have a new poll coming out on Thursday. The poll will cover a number of matters. Some of them are things we Read more
In my previous blog post (http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/electionsinwales/2020/05/12/catching-up/) I talked about findings from the most recent Welsh Political Barometer, in April, about the general standing of the party leaders in Wales, and about public evaluations of the handling of the Covid-19 crisis by leading political figures. At the end of April YouGov did some further work on Read more
Whatever else they have been, the last couple of months have not been dull. Things have been fairly ‘lively’ with my day job; hence, it has only been in the last few days that I have been able to catch up with some things. One of those is some of the April Welsh Political Barometer Read more
I was delighted this week to join the fantastic team at Deryn Consulting for a webinar on next year’s election to the newly renamed Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament. We discussed the history of devolved elections in Wales, the current state of the polls, prospects for next year’s election, and what might follow after the Read more
In these difficult times there is not a great deal of good news around for many people. However, Welsh Conservatives will surely be cheered by the findings of our new Welsh Political Barometer poll. Recent Britain-wide polls have shown support for the Conservative government increasing, with the Tories’ already strong position apparently being boosted by Read more
