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Source: Ipsos MORI Issues IndexBase: 1,008 British adults 18+, 6 - 29 December 2019

December 2019

55%

52%

21%

20%

19%

18%

18%

17%

14%

14%

NHS/Hospitals/Healthcare

Common Market/Brexit/EU/Europe

Poverty/Inequality

Education/Schools

Crime/Law and Order/ASB

Economy

Pollution/environment/climate change

Housing

Immigration/immigrants

Public services in general

AS THE MOST/OTHER

IMPORTANT ISSUES

FACING BRITAIN TODAY?

% Position

+1 +1p

-5 -1q

+5 +3p

-1 -1q

+1

-1 -2q

+3 +1p

+2 -1q

+1

+5 +2p

CHANGE SINCE NOV:TOP MENTIONS %


WHAT DO YOU SEE

Source: Ipsos MORI Issues IndexBase: 1,008 British adults 18+, 6 - 29 December 2019

December 2019 55%

52%

21%

20%

19%

18%

18%

17%

14%

14%

16%

34%

4%

3%

3%

4%

5%

2%

5%

2%



Poverty/Inequality

Education/Schools


Economy

Pollution/environment/climate change

Housing



MOST/OTHER

IMPORTANT ISSUES

MOST IMPORTANT

ISSUE

TOP MENTIONS %

AS THE MOST/OTHER

IMPORTANT ISSUES



What do you see as the most/other important issues facing Britain today?Base: representative sample of c.1,000 British adults age 18+ each month, interviewed face-to-face in home

Growing concerns

0

25

50

75

Dec 2009 Dec 2010 Dec 2011 Dec 2012 Dec 2013 Dec 2014 Dec 2015 Dec 2016 Dec 2017 Dec 2018 Dec 2019

WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE MOST/OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES FACING

BRITAIN TODAY?

TOP MENTIONS %

Source: Ipsos MORI Issues Index

NHS

POLLUTION/ENVIRONMENT

POVERTY/INEQUALITY

CRIME/LAW & ORDER

HOUSING

EU/EUROPE/BREXIT



Growing concerns – beneath the headlines

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35



BRITAIN TODAY?

TOP MENTIONS %


POLLUTION/ENVIRONMENT

POVERTY/INEQUALITY

CRIME/LAW & ORDER

HOUSING

LACK OF FAITH IN GOV/POLITICS



Declining issues

0

25

50

75



BRITAIN TODAY?

TOP MENTIONS %


IMMIGRATION

INFLATION/PRICES

UNEMPLOYMENT

ECONOMY


WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING BRITAIN TODAY?

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

Single Biggest Issue 2010 - 2019

TOP MENTIONS %

NHS

UNEMPLOYMENT

ECONOMY

DEFENCE/TERRORISM

IMMIGRATION

EU/EUROPE/BREXIT

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Jul

2010

Apr

2011

Jan

2012

Oct

2012

Jul

2013

Apr

2014

Jan

2015

Oct

2015

Jul

2016

Apr

2017

Jan

2018

Oct

2018

Jul

2019




EU / Europe / Brexit

BRITAIN TODAY?

Treaty of

Accession: ten

new EU Member

StatesFrance and

Holland reject

ratification of

EU constitution

Lowest score

recorded (1%)

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019

Highest concern recorded

since Sept 1974 (72%)

CAMERON BECOMES PM VOTE FOR BREXIT

GE

2017

GE

2019




NHS / Hospitals / Healthcare

BRITAIN TODAY?

Lowest score since

December 1985 (13%)

Highest score since

December 2002 (61%)

Highest score since Jan 2018 (55%)

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019


GE

2017

GE

2019


0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019



Immigration / Immigrants

BRITAIN TODAY?

Border controls relaxed

for “A8” EU Countries

(Poland, etc.) EU Border controls relaxed for

Romanians and Bulgarians

Highest concern ever

recorded (56%)

Lowest score since

March 2001 (10%)


GE

2017

GE

2019


0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019



Economy / Economic situation

BRITAIN TODAY?

Sub-prime mortgage

crisis in the US Northern Rock

nationalised

Global recession and

Russian Financial crisis

Highest score since 1992; Most

important issue for the first time

Lowest score since

December 2007 (12%)


GE

2017

GE

2019



Unemployment / Factory closure / Lack of industry


BRITAIN TODAY?

Lowest ever score (5%)

Unemployment in Britain

rises to 5.5%

Minimum wage

introduced

Youth unemployment

reaches 1 million

Lowest score since

December 2008 (7%)

Unemployment falls

below 1 million for first

time in 25 years

0

10

20

30

40

50

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019


GE

2017

GE

2019



Education / Schools


BRITAIN TODAY?

0

10

20

30

40

50

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019

Labour’s second term - pledge to

improve failing secondary schools

First City Academies introduced

Lowest score since Dec

1985 (9%)

Highest score since

December 2006 (27%)


GE

2017

GE

2019



Crime / Law & Order / Violence / Vandalism / ASB


BRITAIN TODAY?

Riots across

England

Lowest score since

December 1991 (8%)

Highest score since

December 2011 (29%)

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019

May day riots


GE

2017

GE

2019



Defence / Foreign Affairs / International terrorism


BRITAIN TODAY?

War in Kosovo

9/11Invasion of

Iraq“7/7” London Bombing

UK withdraws from Iraq

NATO

bombing in

Libya

Rise of

IS

Paris attacks and

Parliamentary vote

for action against

IS in Syria

London

Bridge

attackParliamentary

vote against

action in Syria

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019


GE

2017

GE

2019


0

5

10

15

20

25

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019


Poverty/inequality


BRITAIN TODAY?

Sept 1999:

Alastair Darling – “one child in three”

living in poverty

December 2018 and 2019:

highest recorded score since December

1997 (21%)


GE

2017

GE

2019



Housing


BRITAIN TODAY?

Highest scores since

December 1974 (22%)

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019


GE

2017

GE

2019



Pensions/Social Security/Benefits


BRITAIN TODAY?

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 13 million working people are not

saving enough for their retirement”

Lowest ever

score (3%) 0

5

10

15

20

25

30

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019


GE

2017

GE

2019



Pollution / Environment


BRITAIN TODAY?

Widespread flooding

during wet autumn

Nine killed in gales

across Britain

Winter flooding and

storms

0

5

10

15

20

25

Dec

1997

Dec

1998

Dec

1999

Dec

2000

Dec

2001

Dec

2002

Dec

2003

Dec

2004

Dec

2005

Dec

2006

Dec

2007

Dec

2008

Dec

2009

Dec

2010

Dec

2011

Dec

2012

Dec

2013

Dec

2014

Dec

2015

Dec

2016

Dec

2017

Dec

2018

Dec

2019

Highest score since

July 1990 (21%)


GE

2017

GE

2019


0

5

10

15

20

25

Dec

2016

Feb

2017

Apr

2017

Jun

2017

Aug

2017

Oct

2017

Dec

2017

Feb

2018

Apr

2018

Jun

2018

Aug

2018

Oct

2018

Dec

2018

Feb

2019

Apr

2019

Jun

2019

Aug

2019

Oct

2019

Dec

2019


Lack of faith in government/ politics


BRITAIN TODAY?

December 2016

(7%)

September

2019 (15%)


WHAT DO YOU SEE


Party support

59%

62%

14%

18%

24%

18%

14%

16%

23%

13%

64%

41%

30%

29%

20%

19%

23%

23%

12%

20%


Common

Market/Brexit/EU/Europe

Poverty/Inequality

Education/Schools


Economy

Pollution/environment

Housing



CONSERVATIVE

SUPPORTERS

LABOUR

SUPPORTERS

TOP MENTIONS %

AS THE MOST/OTHER

IMPORTANT ISSUES


Base: 1,008 British adults 18+, 6 - 29 December 2019


WHAT DO YOU SEE


Men and women

50%

54%

19%

17%

16%

20%

17%

14%

11%

15%

60%

49%

22%

24%

22%

15%

18%

19%

17%

13%


Common


Poverty/Inequality

Education/Schools


Economy


Housing



MEN

WOMEN

TOP MENTIONS %

AS THE MOST/OTHER

IMPORTANT ISSUES




WHAT DO YOU SEE


Social grade

59%

59%

22%

24%

19%

20%

24%

18%

12%

15%

51%

42%

19%

16%

20%

14%

10%

15%

17%

13%


Common


Poverty/Inequality

Education/Schools


Economy


Housing



ABC1

C2DE

TOP MENTIONS %

AS THE MOST/OTHER

IMPORTANT ISSUES




WHAT DO YOU SEE


Age group44%

46%

19%

19%

17%

21%

17%

19%

13%

12%

60%

51%

28%

26%

21%

19%

21%

19%

14%

16%

60%

57%

15%

16%

19%

13%

14%

12%

16%

14%



Poverty/Inequality

Education/Schools


Economy


Housing



18-34

35-54

TOP MENTIONS %

AS THE MOST/OTHER

IMPORTANT ISSUES


55+



18-34

55+

35-54

18-34

66% 65%

22%

EU/BREXIT NHS POLLUTION/ ENVIRONMENT

56% 49%

19%

NHS EU/BREXIT CRIME

63% 56%

31%

NHS EU/BREXIT EDUCATION/SCHOOLS

56%42%

26%

NHS EU/BREXIT POVERTY/ INEQUALITY

56%47%

23%

EU/BREXIT NHS POLLUTION/ENVIRONMENT

41% 33%22%

NHS EU/BREXIT ECONOMY


Age and social grade

WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE MOST/OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES FACING BRITAIN TODAY?

AG

E B

RA

CK

ET

ABC1 C2DE

SOCIAL GRADE

Base: 1,008 British adults 18+, 6 – 29 December 2019


Ipsos MORI Issues Index

Concern about the NHS by subgroup


51%

60%

58%

52%

Concern by

48%

45% 44% 53% 67% 55% 64%

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

region

Concern about the NHS by age:


55%50%

60% 59% 64% 64%54% 57%

47%

Overall

Concern about the NHS by key demographic groups:

Men Women CON LAB AB C1 C2 DE

SOCIAL GRADEGENDER PARTY SUPPORT



Concern about Brexit/EU by subgroup


60%

47%

52%

57%

Concern by

45%

37% 53% 50% 51% 57% 57%

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

region

Concern about Brexit/EU by age:

Base: 1,008 British adults 18+, 6 – 29 December 2019

Overall

Concern about Brexit/EU by key demographic groups:

52% 54%49%

62%

41%

67%

53%45%

40%





Concern about poverty by subgroup


28%

17%

21%

20%

Concern by

24%

22% 17% 28% 29% 22% 10%

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

region

Concern about poverty/inequality by age:


21% 19%22%

14%

30%

23% 22%17%

20%

Overall

Concern about poverty/inequality by key demographic groups:






Brexit and the NHS: concern over 2019

TOP MENTIONS %

BRITAIN TODAY?

NHS

EU/EUROPE/BREXIT

44 42

3237

41 41 39 4136 36

54

55

63

7168

72

66 6560 61

65 63

57

52

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