ipsos mori issues index: february 2017

FEBRUARY 2017ECONOMIST/IPSOS MORI ISSUES INDEX

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Issues Facing Britain - February

Base: 980 British adults 18+, 10 – 23 February 2017

What do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?

Source: Ipsos MORI Issues Index

52%

45%

27%

19%

16%

15%

14%

13%

12%

11%

NHS/Hospitals/Healthcare

Common Market/Brexit/EU/Europe

Immigration/immigrants

Economy

Housing

Education/Schools

Defence/foreign affairs/terrorism

Poverty/Inequality

Ageing population/Social care for elderly

Unemployment

+3

+4

-3

-4

-1

0

+3

-1

-5

0

%

Change since Jan:

Position

Top mentions %

+2

-4

+1

+3

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Issues Facing Britain - FebruaryWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?


52%

45%

27%

19%

16%

15%

14%

13%

12%

11%

18%

29%

11%

6%

3%

1%

3%

4%

3%

2%




Economy

Housing

Education/Schools


Poverty/Inequality


Unemployment

Top mentions %

MOST/OTHER

IMPORTANT ISSUES

MOST IMPORTANT

ISSUE


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Issues Facing Britain: Long Term Trends

Base: representative sample of c.1,000 British adults age 18+ each month, interviewed face-to-face in home



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NHS UNEMPLOYMENTCRIME/LAW &

ORDER ECONOMY IMMIGRATION EU/BREXIT

5

Vote for Brexit;

Cameron resigns Cameron becomes PM

Issues Facing Britain:

NHS / Hospitals / HealthcareWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?

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Report says waiting lists have

doubled under Labour

Lowest score since

December 1985 (12%)

Highest score since June 2002

(52%)

Source: Ipsos MORI Issues IndexBase: representative sample of c.1,000 British adults age 18+ each month, interviewed face-to-face in home

6

Vote for Brexit;

Cameron resignsCameron becomes PM


Common Market / Europe / Euro / EU / BrexitWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?


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Treaty of Accession: 10 new

EU Member States

France and Holland reject

ratification of EU constitution

Lowest score

recorded (1%)


45%: Highest recorded score

(since September 1974)

7

Vote for Brexit;



Immigration / Immigrants


NB Until Sept 2014 the code was race relations/immigration/immigrants


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Border controls relaxed for “A8” EU

Countries (Poland, etc.)


EU Border controls

relaxed for Romanians

and Bulgarians

Highest concern

ever recorded (56%)

8

Vote for Brexit;



Economy / Economic situationWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?


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Global recession

and Russian

Financial crisis

Highest score since 1992;

Most important issue for

the first time

Sub-prime mortgage

crisis in the US

End of

recession

announced


Lowest score since

February 2008 (19%)

Northern Rock

nationalised

9

Vote for Brexit;



Unemployment / Factory closure / Lack of industryWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?

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Unemployment falls below 1 million for first time in 25 years

Minimum wage

introduced

Unemployment in Britain rises to 5.5%

Lowest ever score(5%)

Youth unemployment reaches 1 million

Lowest score since September

2008 (11%)

Base: representative sample of c.1,000 British adults age 18+ each month, interviewed face-to-face in home Source: Ipsos MORI Issues Index

10

Vote for Brexit;



Crime / Law & Order / Violence / Vandalism / ASB




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May day riots

Riots across

England

9/11Lowest score since

March 1991 (8%)

11

Vote for Brexit;



Education / SchoolsWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?


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Introduction of means-tested tuition

fees. Education most important issue.

First City Academies

introduced

Lowest score since

Dec 1985 (9%)

Labour’s second term - pledge to

improve failing secondary schools

April 2011 – Pupil

Premium introduced


12

Vote for Brexit;



Defence / Foreign Affairs / International terrorismWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?


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9/11 “7/7” London

Bombing

Invasion of Iraq –

protests across Europe

Failed terror

attacks in London

and Glasgow

UK withdraws

from Iraq

War in

Kosovo

Parliamentary vote

against action in Syria

NATO bombing

in Libya

Rise

of IS


Paris attacks and

Parliamentary vote for

action against IS in Syria

13

Vote for Brexit;



Poverty/inequalityWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?


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25

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Sept 1999:

Alastair Darling – “one child in

three” living in poverty

December 2016:

highest score

recorded (20%)

January 2005:

Make Poverty History campaign

launched on New Year’s Day


14

Vote for Brexit;



Inflation/PricesWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?


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Lowest score since Sep 2007 (4%)

Inflation rate hits 16 year peak

Inflation rises to 3.4%


15

Vote for Brexit;



HousingWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?


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May2016

Highest score since

October 1974 (22%)


16

Vote for Brexit;



Pensions/Social Security/BenefitsWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?


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Equitable Life sells

its non-profit

pension annuities

Labour proposes ‘affluence testing’ to

exclude the well-off from state

benefits

Gordon Brown unveils

pension credits Pensions commission report –

“more than 12 million working

people are not saving enough for

their retirement”

Lowest ever

score (3%)


17

Vote for Brexit;



Pollution / EnvironmentWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?


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Wettest Autumn since

records began –

widespread flooding

across the UK

EC proposes carbon emission

cuts of 20% by 2020

Winter flooding

and storms


18

Vote for Brexit;



Low pay/minimum wage/fair wagesWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?


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5

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Highest recorded

score (15%)

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Top issues – concern by party support

Base: 214 Conservative and 221 Labour supporters aged 18+, 10 – 23 February 2017



62%

50%

38%

21%

20%

13%

18%

5%

22%

9%

52%

43%

23%

18%

22%

14%

12%

17%

10%

12%




Economy

Housing

Education/Schools


Poverty/Inequality


Unemployment

Top mentions %

CONSERVATIVE

SUPPORTERS

LABOUR

SUPPORTERS

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NHS is the key issue for all age and social grade

groups except ABC1 18-34s, where it is BrexitWhat do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today? Top three issues by age and social grade

Source: Ipsos MORI Issues IndexBase: 980 British adults 18+, 10 – 23 February 2017

59%

55%

31%

NHS

Eu/Brexit

Immigration

61%

61%

28%

EU/Brexit

NHS

Education

46%

43%

25%

EU/Brexit

NHS

Economy

55%

46%

32%

NHS

Immigration

EU/Brexit

47%

35%

30%

NHS

Immigration

EU/Brexit

40%

39%

13%

NHS

EU/Brexit

Immigration

18

-34

35

-54

55

+

ABC1 C2DE

Social grade

Ag

e b

rac

ke

t

21

Concern about EU/Brexit by subgroup


What do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today? EU/Europe/Brexit

Ipsos MORI Issues Index

18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+

Concern about the EU/Brexit by age group:

50%

39%

43%

56%

Concern by region:

45%38%

45%

54%50%

43%

59%51%

41%

28%

Overall

Concern about the EU/Brexit by key demographic groups:

42%

44% 41%54% 50% 41%43%

Urban Rural CON LAB AB C1 C2 DE

Social GradeLocale Party support

Sub-urban

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Concern about the NHS by subgroup


What do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today? NHS

Ipsos MORI Issues Index

18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+

Concern about the NHS by age group:

44%

52%

53%

61%

Concern by region:

52%

42%

54%60% 62%

52%61%

51%49%46%

Overall Urban Rural CON LAB AB C1 C2 DE

Social GradeLocale Party support

Concern about the NHS by key demographic groups:

39%

37% 45%57% 59% 57%54%

Sub-urban

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