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35% are satisfied with the job Kemi Badenoch is doing as leader of the Conservative Party (+7), 39% are dissatisfied (-7).
This is Badenoch’s highest satisfaction rating with Ipsos since becoming Leader of the Opposition.
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Great chatting through today’s @Ipsos_in_the_UK polling with @lewis_goodall on @LBC this morning.
Upshot: the Burnham bounce is real as Labour consolidates the left vote whilst the right remains divided. But it’s the Tories - not Reform - now in 2nd.
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Nigel Farage's poll ratings with @Ipsos_in_the_UK continue to slide.
22% satisfied (-2)
64% dissatisfied (+3)
Net score is -42. In Jan it was -27. Clear negative shift.
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I've been in France since 2002 and have never seen the streets so violent nor the politics so extreme. From the sacking of the supermarket on my street to the prospect of Présidente Le Pen, here's me @FT including thoughts from 2 French Nobel laureates as.ft.com/r/addcad57-0f9d-4e…
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Labour and the Tories are reasserting themselves. But will it last?
My write up of that @Ipsos_in_the_UK poll for @politicshome today
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NEW headline voting intention from Ipsos
📊Labour on 32% with a lead of +8 – the largest Labour lead Ipsos have recorded this parliament
📊Conservatives take second place the first time since June 2025
📊Reform UK down 3 points and Greens down 5
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Election fever has already spread beyond Westminster. Last week a Lib Dem councillor told HQ that he had tried to order some new Correx boards - the plastic placards used in election campaigns - only to be told the company could not fulfil the order for another month because it would be using all of November to complete a large order for the Labour Party.
From today’s weekend long read with @whazell
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The collapse in violent crime over three decades has been one of the most striking developments of my lifetime.
News is about what’s going wrong, and rightly so. But the bigger picture also matters
From today’s figures:-
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🚨 New figures show that knife crime is down by 11% and overall homicides are down by 7%, since July 2024.
Fatal knife attacks are also at their lowest level in 35 years.
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October leaderboard
📊Polanski receives his worst favourability rating since becoming leader of the Greens (16% favourable, 52% unfavourable,-36 net)
📊Farage and Polanski are the politicians where the majority are unfavourable- 56% Farage, 52% Polanski,
📊Burnham is the only politician with a net favourable rating (39% favourable, 31% unfavourable, +8 net)
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(Fieldwork October 9-13)
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Andy Burnham's spokeswoman had this strongly-worded response to questions about Steve Witkoff calling Vladimir Putin a "humanitarian":
No 10 said: "We certainly do not recognise that characterisation.
"President Putin has killed thousands of people - both innocent Ukrainians and his own Russian people who he has sent to their deaths on the frontline.
"He is starving children and the elderly of heat and warmth - and systematically targeting critical national infrastructure.
"Ukraine's foreign minister summed it up well this morning when he said: 'This night, the residents of Kyiv heard what Russian humanitarianism really sounds like.'"
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On Friday 21st October 1966 one of the 116 children killed in the Aberfan disaster was a nine-year-old boy called Paul Jones.
When his body was recovered, they found a small wallet in his back pocket…
[all images©️ 📷 Viv Jones & @Channel4News]
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Images appearing to show the Pink Panther rioting in France have gathered millions of views across social media, but they’re actually AI.
Read more on the protests: bbc.in/3VZi2YS
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These numbers should concern Polanski and the Greens. We talk a lot about how Reform have gone backwards since winning the locals. But the Greens are in reverse too.
New from @Ipsos_in_the_UK Zack Polanski favourability ratings fall to worst ever as leader.
- 52% are now unfavourable towards Polanski (+6 from Sept).
- 16% favourable (-2).
This is the highest % unfavourable we have found for Polanski & the lowest % favourable.
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Perceptions of Andy Burnham's political identity have strengthened since entering Number 10.
Prior to becoming PM only 37% thought it was clear what he stood for. However, since he's become Prime Minister this has jumped to 57%.
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U’s WIN AGAIN! Down to 10 players @OfficialOUWFC claim a 2-1 victory at Wimbledon to extend their 100% record. #oufc
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Beyond a joke. Unbelievably bad decision. And the difference between Oxford sitting second and seventh tonight #oufc
