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Political Attitudes
in Great Britain for November 2000
Research study conducted for The Times
Newspaper - published 30 November 2000.
MORI interviewed a representative quota sample of 1,972 adults aged
18+ at 195 sampling points across Great Britain between 23-28 November
2000.
Q1 How would you vote if there were a General
Election tomorrow?
[If undecided or refused at Q1]
Q2 Which party are you most inclined to support?
Base: 1,972
Q3 Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the
way the Government is running the country?
Q4 Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way Mr Blair is
doing his job as Prime Minister?
Q5 Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way Mr Hague is
doing his job as leader of the Conservative Party?
Q6 Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way Mr Kennedy is
doing his job as leader of the Liberal Democrats?
Base: 1,030
Q7 What would you say is the most important
issue facing Britain today?
Q8 What do you see as other important issues facing Britain
today? [Random]
Base: 1,030
| |
Q7 |
Q7/Q8 |
| |
% |
% |
| National Health Service/Hospitals |
20 |
46 |
| Common Market/EU/Europe/Single European
Currency |
17 |
27 |
| Education/schools |
6 |
27 |
| Petrol prices/fuel |
6 |
17 |
| Pollution/environment |
6 |
14 |
| Pensions/social security |
2 |
14 |
| Crime/law & order/violence/vandalism |
4 |
13 |
| Economy/economic situation |
5 |
12 |
| Unemployment/factory closure/lack of
industry |
4 |
10 |
| Taxation |
3 |
9 |
| Transport/public transport |
2 |
9 |
| Race relations/immigration/immigrants |
3 |
6 |
| Housing |
2 |
6 |
| Defence/foreign affairs |
1 |
6 |
| Poverty/inequality |
1 |
6 |
| Drug abuse |
1 |
5 |
| Low pay/minimum wage/fair wages |
1 |
4 |
| Morality/individual behaviour |
1 |
4 |
| Inflation/prices |
1 |
3 |
| Beef/BSE/Mad Cow Disease |
* |
3 |
| Countryside/rural life |
* |
2 |
| GM/GM (Genetically Modified) foods |
* |
2 |
| Local government/council tax |
* |
2 |
| Privatisation |
0 |
1 |
| AIDS |
* |
1 |
| Animal welfare |
* |
1 |
| Pound/exchange rate/value of pound |
* |
1 |
| Scottish/Welsh Assembly/Devolution
Constitutional reform |
* |
1 |
| Northern Ireland |
0 |
* |
| Nuclear weapons/nuclear war/disarmament |
* |
* |
| Trade unions/strikes |
* |
* |
|
| Other |
5 |
18 |
| Don't know |
8 |
0 |
An asterisk (*) denotes a figure
between zero and 0.5%.
Important Issues over the last 12 months
& Long
Term Trends
Q9 Do you think that the general economic
condition of the country will improve, stay the same, or get worse
over the next 12 months?
Base: 1,030
| Improve |
 22% |
| Stay the same |
 43% |
| Get worse |
 28% |
| Don't know |
 7% |
| MORI Economic Optimism Index (EOI) |
+6% |
Technical Note
MORI interviewed a representative quota sample of 1,972 adults aged
18+ at 195 sampling points across Great Britain.
Fieldwork was conducted face-to-face on 23-28 November 2000.
Base: All respondents, unless stated.
The voting intention figures exclude those who say they would not vote
(13%), are undecided (8%) or refuse to name a party (1%).
All figures are in percentages. Where percentages do not sum to 100,
this may be due to multiple responses, the exclusion of don't knows or
computer rounding. Data were weighted to match the profile of the
population.
An asterisk (*) denotes a figure between zero and 0.5%.
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