Next Thursday could start to restore our confidence in the polls
Alastair Meeks on the importance of the London, Scottish & Welsh surveys The 2015 general election was a disaster for the polling companies. On the eve of the election, all the pollsters were predicting a hung Parliament with the Conservatives and Labour neck and neck. In the event, the Conservatives were 6% ahead of Labour and got an overall majority. Since then, the pollsters have flagellated themselves, put on hair shirts and sought to uncover what exactly went wrong. They…