April 26, 2017
WHEN ONLY ONE PARTY IS tHIRD wAY:
British PM May's Conservatives up 6 percent points on 49 percent (Reuters, 4/26/17)
The telephone poll of 1,004 adults conducted April 21-25 put May's party up 6 percentage points on 49 percent, Labour down 4 percentage points on 26, the Liberal Democrats unchanged on 13 percent and the United Kingdom Independence Party down 2 percentage points on 4 percent.Gideon Skinner, head of political research at Ipsos MORI, said May's lead matched the biggest lead ever recorded for the Conservatives in an election campaign back in 1983. In that election, Thatcher won a majority of 144 seats.
Posted by Orrin Judd at April 26, 2017 9:01 AM