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Public opinion is necessary within the European Union and should play an important role in policy decisions. The mismanagement of public opinion in the run-up to the Maastricht Treaty damaged the outcome. The referendums held in France and Denmark over ratification of the Maastricht Treaty almost resulted in failure and is evidence of the importance of public opinion.

The narrowlead for Labour among those certain to vote will throw a wobbly into the election. Six in 10 - 61 per cent to be precise - of the sample [...]

Although the Conservatives have pulled to within two points of Labour in the most recent Mori poll, this would still suggest Labour's majority in the House of Commons would be [...]

Michael Howard has failed to take the Tories any closer to an election victory than when he was elected leader in November, according to the latest MORI/Financial Times poll. This [...]

Business leaders have gone off Britain joining the euro, according to the latest MORI captains of industry survey. While about seven in 10 favoured scrapping the pound for the single [...]

Many top executives have lost faith in the government's economic policies over the past two years, according to MORI's latest Captains of Industry survey. Confidence in the policies has dropped [...]

Last Thursday the Liberal Democrats won a by-election victory in Brent East that will have repercussions at all three party conferences. Any time a political party can capture a seat [...]

Dissatisfaction with the way the government is running the country and how Tony Blair is doing his job as prime minister has reached an all-time high, according to the latest [...]

On Saturday, Tony Blair became the longest continuous serving Labour prime minister in history. Six years ago, in late July 1997, the hopes the country had of its new leader [...]

Fewer than a third ofthe British public now saythey trust the prime minister, according to a MORI poll carried out last week for the Financial Times. Only 31 per cent [...]

Eight people in10 disagree that 'directors of largecompanies can be trusted to tell the truth', according to a MORI poll conducted for the Financial Times. And nearly two-thirds of those [...]

Is Tony Blair basking in a 'Baghdad bounce'? What are the implications of the prime minister's international actions for the local elections on Thursday and the eventual general election? And [...]

Big events shape public opinion. Public opinion shapes the political scene. Four months before the invasion of the Falklands, Margaret Thatcher was the least popular prime minister in polling history. [...]

Tony Blair's satisfaction ratings have fallen still further in the past month, with only three people in 10 now saying they are satisfied with the job he is doing as [...]

Politics is about the management of expectations. Until recently the performance of the chancellor and the state of the British economy have been the foundation upon which New Labour's edifice [...]

Politically, Britain is becalmed. The state of the parties, according to the latest MORI Political Monitor, published exclusively today in the Financial Times, is 30 per cent Conservative, 42 per [...]