‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme drove new COVID-19 infections up by between 8 and 17%, new research finds. The government initiative, which cost around £500 million, caused a significant rise in new infections in August and early September accelerating the pandemic into its current second wave. The economic benefits of the scheme, meanwhile, were …
I become increasingly sceptical of much of UK polling. There appears to be a very strange disconnect. Eurobarometer polling suggests that attitudes to the EU, if anything, appear to have become more pro-European in the run up to the EU referendum — the share of respondents stating EU membership is a good thing peaked in …
The 2019 European Election in the UK was the European Election that was not meant to be held. The inability of the Conservative Party to arrive at a consensus view on Brexit that commands a majority in parliament has resulted in the legal need to hold the EU elections — and, to many observers unsurprisingly, …
That the Labour party got 40% of the vote – against all odds – is being attributed to a higher turnout among young voters. This analysis finds that older voters did not turn up to vote, relative to younger voters. The results also suggest that in many places, the older vote was split between the two main …