The Green Party is proposing that CEO salaries should be capped at ten times the minimum pay within a company. Given the current leadership of the Greens, this is not surprising. But what is surprising is that, according to a YouGov poll 65% of Brits seem to agree – including 77% of Labour, 58% of […]
Not too long ago Keir Starmer was banging on about how growth is his ‘number one mission’. Now, with the economy once again faltering – real GDP grew by an anaemic 0.1% in the last quarter of 2025, following an equally disappointing 0.1% in the previous quarter – we are hearing a bit less on […]
The debate over inheritance tax is not a new one. Some Roman Emperors levied a form of it, and the concept was first implemented in Britain in 1694. David Cameron and George Osborne famously made cutting the tax their big-ticket pledge ahead of ‘the election that never was’ in 2007, and the latest uproar from […]
How can people without capital be expected to believe in capitalism? This is the challenge of our age, as ‘own nothing and be happy’ hardens into a new dividing line in Western politics. Westminster risks ignoring the emerging political economy of housing, even as public anger grows. Green Party leader Zack Polanski is already courting […]
Britain is stuck in a growth ‘doom loop’. Public spending has ballooned, taxes are at a 70-year high and the same pattern repeats each year. The result is a country that works harder, pays more and gets less. It’s a policy environment that is hitting business hard at all levels, and is toxic for young […]
Keir Starmer’s hands were shaking as he stood at the despatch box at this week’s PMQs, and who can blame him? Starmer knows the scandal over his appointment of Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States could be his last as Prime Minister. His failure to register thousands of pounds’ worth of gifts from […]
Peering tentatively into 2026, the UK’s business landscape is fraught with uncertainty, but one trend stands out: the remarkable ascent of Reform UK in the eyes of boardrooms. A groundbreaking report from Bradshaw Advisory, where I serve as a senior adviser, polls over 500 business directors and reveals a seismic shift in sentiment. Far from […]
Today, we have become used to vast swathes of the population switching long-held political allegiances, so it’s hard to imagine that there was a time when suggesting that working class voters could be tempted away from Labour was a novel idea. But that is exactly how it felt when Esther McVey and I set up […]
Now that the battle for Brexit has been won, the battle for saving the union is in full swing. The weapon of choice is the opinion poll and a particularly striking example was given star billing in the most recent Sunday Times. It showed 49% of Scots in support of independence, with 44% against and […]
The recent tragic events in the United States, and the reaction worldwide, have seen matters of race and racism come to the fore in a way that they have not for some time. Polling is already available on what the British public as a whole think about it, but measuring opinion specifically among ethnic minorities […]
Slowly but surely, normality is reasserting itself. Barbecues are back, schools will soon be re-opening and the papers are getting over-excited about opinion polls. After a bruising week, we learn today that the Government’s support has “collapsed” to a mere five-point lead over Labour, while Boris Johnson’s personal ratings have also taken a hammering. How worried […]
As the Brexit crisis continues, many have expressed astonishment that the Labour Party has not (yet) been able to build up a substantial lead in voting intention polls. Their surprise is understandable – the government’s handling of Brexit is rated extremely poorly by the public, yet the governing party doesn’t appear to be paying much […]
A new year brings with it new topics. But it’s interesting to look back at 2018 and recall what we learnt from polling during what was, to put it mildly, an eventful year. We didn’t learn much about changes in voting intention because there were hardly any. The Conservatives and Labour started the year right […]
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