Former Liberal Democrat leader says polls predicting a hung parliament ‘massively increased the power’ of the Tories’ messageFlawed polling “manifestly and substantially” altered the result of the general election,the former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown has said. He called on polling companies to “come by their house in order”.
On Tuesday the British Polling Council published a long-awaited postmortem into what went wrong with opinion polls before final year’s general election, pointing the finger at a failure to reach enough Conservative voters.
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Source: theguardian.com