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The King’s Speech had 21 pieces of legislation including proposals for toughening sentencing laws, a gradual ban on selling cigarettes and annual licences for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea. But will any of it matter? John Curtice and Rachel Wolf discuss whether it will help the Conservatives to narrow the gap with Labour who have enjoyed a 20 point poll lead for more than a year.

The must-listen show about key trends and forces shaping public opinion with Sir John Curtice and Rachel Wolf. In this episode, for forty years the British Social Attitudes survey has provided the most comprehensive insight into who we are and what we think. Sir John Curtice and Rachel Wolf make sense of what it tells us about ourselves.

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Be wary of a politician who promises to get net migration down to the tens of thousands. Several have tried in recent years, but none has succeeded. Net migration - in part thanks to one off events like the war in Ukraine and the crackdown in Hong Kong, and in spite of Brexit - is now at a record high. John Curtice and Rachel Wolf talk to Madeleine Sumption who runs the Migration Observatory at Oxford University to find out why this is the case and they explore how our attitudes toward immigration have changed over time.

Trendy is the must-listen show about key trends and forces shaping public opinion with Sir John Curtice and Rachel Wolf.

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Two-thirds of prisons in England and Wales are officially overcrowded. How did that happen and what do people think about punishments for criminals?

Trendy is the must-listen show about key trends and forces shaping public opinion with Sir John Curtice and Rachel Wolf.

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What do the numbers tell us about the UK’s past relationship with the EU; what do we think about Brexit now and is it still an issue which is driving voter intention?

Trendy is the must-listen show about key trends and forces shaping public opinion with Sir John Curtice and Rachel Wolf.

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Tortoise is hosting a special live edition of Trendy on Wednesday 8th May.

Join hosts John Curtice and Rachel Wolf in the Tortoise newsroom for this special live recording of the podcast to make sense of the local elections being held on May 2nd in England and Wales. Most of the elections are for positions last contested in 2021. At that time Boris Johnson’s government was still enjoying a bounce in the polls thanks to the roll out of the COVID vaccines. Fast forward three years and the country is now seemingly in a very different political place.

But do the results of the local elections confirm or contradict the message of the polls? Where did the parties do better – and where less well? What might it tell us about the general election later this year? What lessons are there for the politicians – and will they take any notice?

John and Rachel will be answering these questions and any more that you may have - so sign up now!

You can book your place here.

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