February 2024 Focus Groups
Focus group: Wellingborough
Date: 7th February 2024
Covered by: The Telegraph
Recruitment Criteria
- All voted Conservative in 2019
- All live in Wellingborough Parliamentary Constituency
- Mix of age, sex, gender, socio-economic grade
Discussion topics
- Big issues affecting the country.
- The political parties and their leaders
- The parliamentary by-election
- The week's political events
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Focus group: Bristol
Date: 7th February 2024
Covered by: The Sun
Recruitment Criteria
- All from the Progressive Activists segment
- All live in Bristol Central Parliamentary Constituency
- Mix of age, sex, gender, socio-economic grade
- All intending to vote Labour at next election
Discussion topics
- Big issues affecting the country.
- Attitudes to climate change and the environment
- Net Zero transition policies including home heating and transport transition
- Government consultation processes
- Attitudes to sewage, farming and pollution
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Focus group: Cumbria
Date: 8th February 2024
Covered by: The Sun
Recruitment Criteria
- All from Backbone Conservative segment
- All voted Conservative in 2019
- All live in Cumbria
- Mix of age, sex, gender, socio-economic grade
Discussion topics
- Big issues affecting the country.
- Attitudes to climate change and the environment
- Net Zero transition policies including home heating and transport transition
- Government consultation processes
- Attitudes to sewage, farming and pollution
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Focus group: Essex
Date: 8th February 2024
Covered by: The Sun
Recruitment Criteria
- All from Disengaged Traditionalist segment
- All live in Essex
- All intending to switch their vote from the last election
- Mix of age, sex, gender, socio-economic grade
Discussion topics
- Big issues affecting the country.
- Attitudes to climate change and the environment
- Net Zero transition policies including home heating and transport transition
- Government consultation processes
- Attitudes to sewage, farming and pollution
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Focus groups: Rochdale
Date: 19th February 2024 (Group 1) and 20th February 2024 (Groups 2 and 3)
Covered by: The Sunday Times
Group 1: Recruitment Criteria
- All Muslim
- All live in Rochdale Parliamentary Constituency
- Mix of age, sex, gender, socio-economic grade
Group 2: Recruitment Criteria
- All voted for the Conservative Party in the 2019 General Election
- All most likely to vote for Labour in the upcoming byelection
- All live in Rochdale Parliamentary Constituency
- Mix of age, sex, gender, socio-economic grade, ethnicity
Group 3: Recruitment Criteria
- All voted for the Labour Party in the 2019 General Election
- All most likely to vote for Labour in the upcoming byelection
- All live in Rochdale Parliamentary Constituency
- Mix of age, sex, gender, socio-economic grade, ethnicity
Discussion topics
- Big issues affecting the country, big issues facing Rochdale
- The political parties and their leaders, whether they are taking these issues seriously
- Perceptions of George Galloway
- Perceptions of Azhar Ali, and Starmer's response to him
- How has the Labour Party changed since 2019?
- Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim hate in the UK in 2024