Polls, votes, facts, and the Star
Opinion polls have earned themselves a pretty bad reputation — for obvious reasons — over the past three years or so. But the ESRC Party Members’ Project is no ordinary opinion poll: it’s part of an ongoing wider academic study. Its recent findings regarding Labour voters’ and members’ attitudes to Brexit correspond to the overwhelming evidence of the last Labour conference and the statistics regarding the Labour vote in the last general election. The study, part of the Party Members’ Project led by Professor Tim Bale of Queen Mary University of London, found that while Labour members still...