A message from Brian Cooper, Managing Director at Omnisis We were recently approached to do some constituency polling for the Gorton + Denton by-election – it had been a while since we’d dipped our toes into those particular waters, so I was a little nervous. Given the, shall we say, colourful nature of the contest… Read more »
Omnisis has launched a new brand to represent its public opinion polling work – WeThink. WeThink will be the new home and brand for the polling work of Omnisis, covering the same critical issues that impact British voters including Brexit, voter intention, Prime Minister approval, preferred Prime Minister and the environment. Every week, WeThink will… Read more »
The Conservative party and its leader Rishi Sunak have bounced back across a number of metrics in the latest Omnisis poll. Labour’s lead in the voter intention poll was slashed by eight points, from 24 points to 16 this week, while in the Prime Minister approval tracker, Mr Sunak clawed back nine points to now… Read more »
More than 60% of Brits want to re-join the EU with nearly the same number saying Britain was wrong to leave in the first place, a new poll shows. Omnisis, one of the few pollsters to regularly track Brexit sentiment amongst British voters, recorded 62% of people saying they want the country to re-join the… Read more »
Voters say the UK should be putting its energy into solar, with many disagreeing with the Government’s pledge to “max out” the country’s gas and oil fields, a new Omnisis poll shows. More than a third of people (36%) disagreed with the Government’s new plan to issue 100 new gas and oil exploration licences with… Read more »
A massive 62% of voters say they either disagree or are unsure they know the key policy differences between Labour and the Conservatives, a new Omnisis poll has revealed. While 39% of people said they agreed they knew the differences between the two main parties, 19% disagreed and 43% said they neither agreed nor disagreed… Read more »
A new Omnisis poll shows that more than half of Brits still back striking workers despite two-in-five people saying they’ve been disrupted by strikes. The pollsters found that 58% of voters said they support striking public sector workers, with 30% saying they don’t. Only 12% saying they didn’t know. This majority support comes despite 39%… Read more »
Labour extended its lead over the Tories to 26 points as 51% of voters said they’d back the party in a general election, a new Omnisis poll has revealed. The pollster’s weekly voter intention tracker showed a three-point increase for Labour this week, with the Conservatives dropping a point to sit on 25%. It’s a… Read more »
A new poll by Omnisis shows that most voters want key public services such as water, energy and rail to be nationalised. More than two thirds (68%) said water services should be nationalised, with only 16% saying they should remain privately owned. 16% didn’t know. Pollsters asked the question after it emerged that water companies… Read more »
A massive 70% of voters say a general election should be held in the next six months, a new Omnisis poll has revealed. In a week which has seen interest rates increase to 5%, inflation at 8.7% and warnings of a UK recession, more than two thirds think the country should go to the polls… Read more »
British voters believe it is inappropriate for Boris Johnson to present an honours list and should lose his £115,000 annual Prime Minister’s allowance, a new Omnisis poll has found. The poll was conducted after a Parliamentary Privileges Committee report found that Mr Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties during the Covid pandemic. As a… Read more »
One in four voters could switch their political allegiance ahead of the next general election – with the LibDems most likely to benefit, according to a new Omnisis poll. More than a quarter (26%) said they would change their mind about which party they’d vote for with 46% saying they would not be likely to… Read more »
Voters say the Tories are failing to meet their main objectives, six months after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak revealed the Government’s top five priorities for the country. A new poll by Omnisis has revealed most voters feel the Government is ‘doing badly’ on every single priority: Halving inflation 62% doing badly 13% doing well 20%… Read more »
Voters say the Government is failing to control and manage the UK’s borders since Brexit, a new Omnisis poll shows. As latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) data revealed net migration to the UK had almost trebled since Brexit, 66% of voters agreed the Government had lost control of immigration. Only 19% disagreed and 15%… Read more »
A new Omnisis poll has revealed that people don’t believe a Labour government would meet house-building targets, with a majority disapproving of the party’s green belt building policy. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer this week said a Labour government would build 300,000 new homes per year by giving local authorities more powers to build on… Read more »
Labour hit a record-breaking 27-point lead over the Conservatives, while Sir Keir Starmer saw his biggest-ever lead over Rishi Sunak as the nation’s preferred Prime Minister in the latest Omnisis poll. Starmer’s Labour gained three points to reach 51% in the pollster’s latest voter intention tracker, as the Tories dropped three points and now sit… Read more »
Predicting the future is a tough gig. And we all know, that in the world of political polling, nothing is certain when it comes to future-gazing. However, while it’s true that pollsters don’t always get it right … they don’t always get it wrong either. As the dust settles on the Local Elections 2023, it’s… Read more »
Nearly a quarter of people would abolish the monarchy and one in four view the Royal Family more negatively since Queen Elizabeth II’s death, a new Omnisis poll shows. Ahead of the King’s Coronation on Saturday, 6th May, we asked if the public should consider changes to the monarchy, with 23% of voters saying it… Read more »
With over 50 mentions in national media, April was a good month for spreading the word about Omnisis and our public opinion polling work. 1st April – Daily Express / MSN UK We were commissioned by the Express to ask about Rishi Sunak’s performance as Prime Minister and voter intentions. Get the full story here:… Read more »
Labour could win nearly a third of all votes amid a potentially high turnout at the local elections on 4th May, a new poll by Omnisis suggests. The pollsters ran a local election voter intention poll in postcodes where elections are taking place which revealed 37% of people will vote Labour and 26% voting Conservative…. Read more »