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Director of polling firm . Views expressed my own etc.

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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
6 in 10, including 35% of Remain voters, say that Parliament ‘has had plenty of time to debate Brexit and we should just get on with leaving the EU’ @ComRes for @Telegraph
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
"After Brexit, Britain should position itself as the lowest-tax, business-friendliest country in Europe" agree 47% disagree 18% DK 34% @ComRes for @BrexitE
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Andrew Hawkins
3 months
@AllisonPearson The police have a great deal to answer for here. You get nicked for silent prayer outside an abortion clinic but can march unchallenged through the street calling for the blood of Jews. What has this country come to?
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
85% of Leave voters, and 46% of Remainers, say it feels 'as if the EU as been trying to punish the UK over #Brexit negotiations' @ComRes for @Telegraph
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Two-thirds of voters (68%) describe having to seek the EU's permission to delay #Brexit as "humiliating" @ComRes for @LeaveMnsLeave
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
We can now publish postal votes from final @ComRes poll (before T May's speech) based on 20% of total voting sample: BRX 34% Lab 22% Con 12% LD 11% CHUK 5% Other (inc Grn) 12% #EuropeanElectionResults
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
Sorry but we just have to get schools back and the teaching unions need finally to get behind efforts to resume our kids' education. Enough is enough.
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Tomorrows Papers Today
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Sunday's Observer: Now teachers sound alarm over plans to reopen schools #TomorrowsPapersToday #Observer
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Andrew Hawkins
2 years
#TopGunMaverick is simply fantastic. Nothing more to say. @TopGunMovie
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
New MRP poll "If Lab became pro-Remain and promised In/Out 2nd Ref": LAB 38% BRX 30% CON 11% LD 9% SNP/PC 4% CHUK 3% UKIP 3% GRN 2% O 1% @ComRes for @remainutd and @ElectCalculus
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
New @ComRes poll for @Telegraph out tonight: 54% support Boris Brexit pledge, including 35% of 2016 Remainers who say the #EURef result 'should be respected'
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
"Irrespective of whether or not I voted to leave, the 2016 Ref result shd be respected" agree 54% incl 35% of 2016 Remain voters, 27% of Lib Dems, 33% of Lab voters @ComRes for @Telegraph
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Tory Cllrs think Boris is the candidate best placed to beat Corbyn, by 71% to 29% @ComRes for @Telegraph
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
By 46% to 20% Brits support extending the right to live in the UK to any BNO passport holder from Hong Kong, @SavantaComRes for @hk_watch and @FriendsHongKong
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Andrew Hawkins
6 years
By 2:1 voters agree that "Theresa May is right to warn that if #Brexit is stopped it will cause a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy" (52% to 26%) @ComRes for @Daily_Express
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
New @ComRes poll of 26,000 GB adults for Channel 5 Jeremy Vine live debate reveals 54% favour honouring Brexit result
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
New @SavantaComRes poll for @Telegraph just out, with new prompting to replicate actual constituency ballot papers: Con 42 (-1) Lab 32 (-1) LD 12 (-1) BXP 3 (-1) SNP 4 (+1) Grn 2 (-1) Other 6 (+5)
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Andrew Hawkins
2 years
I don't think @XRebellionUK have twigged that @UKParliament is in fact a citizens assembly
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
"Britain shd leave the EU on 31 Oct, without a deal if necessary" agree 42% disagree 38% DK 20% @ComRes for @Telegraph
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
1 in 20 get bowel cancer, it's 2nd biggest cancer killer, but while @CMO_England says NHS 'open for business' our local hosp say @PublicHealthEng still haven't authorised restarting bowel screening - why? @bowelcanceruk @BCI_UK @BowelResearch
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
This, from early last week, helps explain why the Tory Party is haemorrhaging voters to Brexit Party
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
What Brexit wd Tory voters find acceptable? New @ComRes poll for @Telegraph
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
By 2:1 voters think December election is 'better than holding a confirmatory referendum on Boris Johnson's deal' (41% to 21%)
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Huge @ComRes poll out tonight for @Telegraph shows that @BorisJohnson could deliver 100+ Tory majority
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Andrew Hawkins
7 years
Expectns of Tory win dampening - 57% tonight compares to 86% 3 wks ago (slightly diff qu excl DKs, 75% tonight on similar basis)
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Andrew Hawkins
2 years
Got to say I'm hugely relieved my kids were able to just be kids and weren't exposed to this kind of weird stuff
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stellacreasy
2 years
What a lovely afternoon with Drag Story Hour UK today with the wonderful Greta who put so much energy into story telling and entertaining local children - Proud too that Walthamstow a community that welcomes and celebrates pride with the @morrisgallery in this lovely way! 🌈🌈
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
When DKs are excluded, 54% support Leave and 46% support Remain ( @ComRes poll of 26,000 GB adults for Jeremy Vine live debate on Channel 5 tonight)
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
55% think holding a 2nd EURef would 'betray' what those who voted #Leave in 2016 wanted @ComRes for @LeaveMnsLeave
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
"Parliament can be trusted to do the right thing for the country" % agree: All 12% Lib Dem voters 19% Lab voters 18% Con voters 10% Remain voters 17% Leave voters 6% BXP voters 2% @ComRes for S Express
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Asked of Brexit Party voters: "I would not vote for the Brexit Party in a General Election" agree 11% disagree 89% (excl DK) @ComRes for S Express/S Mirror
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
Which is a bit like calling someone the most famous British skier since Eddie the Eagle
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The Economist
4 years
Rishi Sunak has the highest satisfaction ratings for a chancellor since Denis Healey in 1978, according to Ipsos MORI
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Prefs for #Brexit outcome: 50% Leave, 42% Remain, 8% DK @ComRes poll of 26,000 GB adults for Channel 5 Jeremy Vine live debate
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
New @ComRes snap poll for @Telegraph : public say Supreme Court ‘right’ to overrule prorogation by almost 2 to 1 (50% to 29%)
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Andrew Hawkins
3 years
Amazingly this campaign secured more than 75% of its target funding within 48 hours of going live. Gwent Police hit something a nerve with the British public.
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Democracy 3.0
3 years
Help defend freedom of speech - please join the hundreds of people here supporting #justiceforjenni
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
37% of 2017 Con voters say that 'any Conservative politician who wants to be the next party leader shd oppose T May's deal and support no-deal #Brexit '; 31% disagree @ComRes for @LeaveMnsLeave
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Whose fault will it be if UK unable to get deal by 31 Oct? 38% say Boris (for offering false promises), 39% say Corbyn & Remain MPs (for undermining UK neg position) @ComRes for Sunday Express
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Andrew Hawkins
3 years
Alfie gets heavier with each election #dogsatpollingstations
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Andrew Hawkins
2 months
@labourlewis It should hardly be a surprise you are required to swear allegiance to the sovereign (Sinn Fein clearly understand that). And why shd a law be criticised for being from 1866 when an 1861 Act outlaws GBH?
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
So it turns out Track & Trace has cost more than £180 for every man, woman and child in the United Kingdom. So far.
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Andrew Hawkins
3 years
Incredible age break in snap poll from @SavantaComRes % who think #Putin is "trustworthy": 18-24 20% 25-34 15% 35-44 12% 45-54 5% 55-64 3% 65+ 1%
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Andrew Hawkins
3 months
From @markpack - puts into perspective how unique this is for the Tories
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
Not just SAGE, it now seems Govt has also lost touch with reality...parents are now, today, having to reassure kids that they'd spring them out of uni if pushed. Madness.
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
% who may change their mind in the run-up to a General Election: Con voters 37% Lab voters 40% Lib Dem voters 63% Brexit Party voters 54%
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Andrew Hawkins
3 years
To disappoint those looking for link between #Brexit vote and #Covid compliance, there's no difference between Remainers and Leavers in claimed adherence to the rules
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
8 in 10 Tory Cllrs say 'the next Tory leader must deliver Brexit on or before 31 October' @ComRes for @Telegraph
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Almost a month ago this @ComRes poll finding was published in @Telegraph ; it helps explain why Tory voters deserted the Party in their droves on Thursday
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Andrew Hawkins
8 years
@KTHopkins Today's poll results suggest a trip to Waitrose might be in order
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Snap @ComRes poll for @Daily_Express finds public backs Boris Brexit deal by 40% to 31%, 29% DK
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Andrew Hawkins
4 months
#BlackpoolSouth is a shocker for the Conservatives - their 17.5% vote share is the worst in over a century for a seat they were defending
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Andrew Hawkins
2 years
10am TfL announcement at #Paddington this morning telling me to eat something before drinking alcohol and drink lots of water. Really don't know how I ever survived the 40 years since turning 18.
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Latest @ComRes Westminster voting intention poll for @BrexitE Lab 27 (-7) Brexit Party 20 (+6) Con 19 (-4) LD 14 (+7) Change UK 7 (-2) Grn 5 (+2) UKIP 3 (-2) SNP 3 (-) PC 1 (-) O 1 (-) (change since 16 April)
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Andrew Hawkins
8 years
New ComRes poll for @CNN finds Brits stand by #EURef decision
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
New poll on acceptable #Brexit outcomes: Revoke A50 & Remain 40% 2nd In/Out Ref 39% Leave w/out deal 38% 2nd Ref between Remain & T May's deal 38% Long delay to negotiate Cust Union deal 34% Leave w/T May's deal 32% @ComRes for @Telegraph
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
"Brexit shd be delayed to 31 Jan 2020" agree 29% disagree 49% DK 23% @ComRes for @Telegraph
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Best Prime Minister: % Theresa May 25 Jeremy Corbyn 26 Vince Cable 15 Nigel Farage 18 Heidi Allen 6 Caroline Lucas 10 @ComRes for S Express/S Mirror
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Andrew Hawkins
7 years
Different context but in '97 Tories got to w/in 5 pts of Lab w/less than 2 wks to polling day...Lab went on to 179 majority. Just saying.
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Andrew Hawkins
7 years
ComRes for Sunday Mirror: T May has higher best PM rating than Corbyn, Farron & Nuttall combined
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Best to bring the country together after Brexit % Theresa May 21 Jeremy Corbyn 25 Vince Cable 16 Nigel Farage 22 Heidi Allen 6 Caroline Lucas 9 @ComRes for S Mirror/S Express
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Andrew Hawkins
7 years
New ComRes poll for Sunday Mirror: HIGHEST TORY VOTE SHARE SINCE JAN 1991 Con 50(+4) Lab 25(-) LD 11(-) UKIP 7(-2)
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
@AlStewartOBE I think Bill Gates might also be given just a bit of credit for sinking large amounts of his cash into vaccine development
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
Hugely interesting @SavantaComRes poll for @TheConWom out tonight calls into qu the basis for prev polls showing #lockdown support and shows terrible toll #lockdown is having on the country
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Andrew Hawkins
1 year
Feeling v sorry for these poor students who can't respond by going on tuition fee strike - absolute disgrace sums it up v well
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Andrew Hawkins
2 years
RIP our wonderful pooch Jumble, 31.12.10 to 22.11.22 You'll be much missed
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Andrew Hawkins
3 years
More in every age group think that "Boris Johnson is NOT the right type of leader to navigate the Russia-Ukraine conflict for the UK" than think he is, in new @SavantaComRes snap poll
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Andrew Hawkins
1 year
Whatever our views on abortion, this is a cautionary tale of what happens when we let freedom be eroded. Incredible that in the UK you can be prosecuted for it
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ADF UK
1 year
🚨BREAKING🚨 Another individual has been criminally charged for silently praying - IN HIS MIND - outside an abortion facility in a censorial “buffer zone”. Adam Smith-Connor was praying about the son he had lost to abortion. First hearing: 9 AUGUST.
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Andrew Hawkins
4 months
If you need cheering up this morning, a friend sent me this clip of his new Highland calf
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
"Instead of delaying #Brexit , Britain should just leave to trade on WTO rules on 29 March" agree 41% disagree 28% DK 31%
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
47 years after joining the EEC, tonight seems an appropriate moment to down this bad boy. Happy New Year!
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
Tonight's meal out to celebrate our daughter's GCSE grades was all the more appreciated by her "as it's not Mon-Weds so I won't by paying it off for the next 40 years"
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Andrew Hawkins
2 years
@mjeslfc @GoodwinMJ @cursesinvogue At least the numbers are moving in the right direction #progress
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Andrew Hawkins
10 months
@CamillaTominey nails it. We have a "government" which is impotent in the face of extremism. You're more likely to be nicked for praying near an abortion clinic than calling for Israel to be obliterated. The country's moral compass is bust.
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Rory Stewart was the only Tory leadership candidate tested by @ComRes for @Telegraph who, if elected, wd mean more 2017 Con voters would vote @brexitparty_uk than Conservative
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
Terrible events tonight. It's a curious "god" these people follow. Heart goes out to their poor victims
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Nic Keaney 💀
4 years
Police confirm several different shooting locations in #Vienna
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Andrew Hawkins
7 years
Very droll from Matt tonight #MagicMoneyTree
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Andrew Hawkins
10 years
ComRes/ITV News poll: 62% say let Farage take part in TV debates, 19% disagree
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
"Length of sentence for terrorism is more important than rehabilitation" 62%, "rehabilitation is more important than length of terrorism sentence" 25% @SavantaComRes for @Telegraph
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Andrew Hawkins
10 years
Encouraging 12yr old to read Wodehouse mightn't have been such a great idea, now emails me 'Dear Aged Relative' #auntsarentgentlemen
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Behold, the 2019 political ugly baby contest:
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
76% of Leave voters, and 35% of Remainers, think that MPs harmed the UK's #Brexit negotiating position by taking 'no deal' off the table @ComRes for @LeaveMnsLeave
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Andrew Hawkins
6 years
73% think MPs who change party shd be forced to stand down and fight by-election @ComRes for @BrexitE
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
Good on @halfon4harlowMP for demanding Ofqual be given an October deadline for deciding on 2021 exams - at least someone's batting for students!
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Andrew Hawkins
3 years
This is on a stupidity par with telling people not to walk quickly cos it would be, well, rushin'
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Alessandra Bocchi
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Italy’s main University in Milan just banned teaching Fyodor Dostoevsky because he’s a Russian writer. Dostoevsky was sent to a Siberian labour camp for reading banned books in Tsarist Russia. We are reaching levels of hatred and stupidity that I thought were never possible.
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
If Brexit + celebrity qualifies people to sit in Parliament then i hope Joan Collins and Roger Daltry aren't overlooked
@IndyPolitics
Indy Politics
4 years
Sir Ian Botham set to be made a peer for backing Brexit
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
New poll of 6000 GB adults just out wd give Tories a TWO seat majority: CON 43 LAB 36 LD 12 BXP 3 GRN 2 @SavantaComRes for @remainutd
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
New @ComRes poll out tonight for Sunday Express: Con28% (-2) Lab27% (-2) LD20% (+3) Brex 13% (-) Green 5% (+1) SNP4% (+1) UKIP 1%(-) Other 2% (-)
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Andrew Hawkins
10 years
ComRes/ITV News poll finds 50% to 21% think Cameron is just using Green Party 'as an excuse' to get out of TV debates
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Andrew Hawkins
7 years
Bear in mind exit poll doesn't include postal votes - we were picking up around 25% of votes being cast postally in final polls
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
55% of the public think Jeremy Corbyn 'unfit to be PM' because of his failure to tackle anti-semitism within his own party @ComRes for @JewishNewsUK
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Andrew Hawkins
4 years
"As a dog returns to its vomit..."
@GdnPolitics
Guardian politics
4 years
Lib Dems vote to push for renewed EU membership in long term
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Does extinction loom for @XRebellionUK ? Support crashes to 14% (since April) in new @ComRes poll for @Daily_Express
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
"If Parliament will not agree to the WA on the table, Parliament has to accept No Deal as the consequence" agree 63% disagree 37% (excl DK) @ComRes for S Express/S Mirror
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Andrew Hawkins
6 years
Agreed
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Matt Goodwin
6 years
Not disputing that a 2nd referendum might be the only thing that can break the log jam but having been in focus groups for the past six months Leave is (still) stronger than people think The conversation that Twitter is having is not the conversation that the country is having
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
Preferred #Brexit options: Abandon it 35% Leave on WTO terms on 29/3 24% Leave w/new deal after 29/3 14% Leave w/May's deal on 29/3 12% None/DK 15% (NET leave 50%) @ComRes for @Daily_Express
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Andrew Hawkins
9 years
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Andrew Hawkins
3 years
I sometimes wonder how people function at all when it comes to managing risk for themselves and their families
@Savanta_UK
Savanta UK
3 years
More than half say the public can't be trusted to take the appropriate measures to protect themselves and others from coronavirus.
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
@keiranpedley In case you feel short changed here's one I prepared earlier #dogsatpollingstations
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
What Brexit wd Tory voters find acceptable? New @ComRes poll for @Telegraph
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Andrew Hawkins
10 years
Voters' choice of actor to play own party's leader: UKIP - Sean Bean, Tories - Colin Firth, Lib Dems - Hugh Grant, Labour - Rowan Atkinson
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Andrew Hawkins
5 years
"I trust MPs to do the right thing over #Brexit " agree 11% disagree 68% @ComRes for @Telegraph
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