Con to Lab/LD switchers ‘greener’, back greater ambition on climate
Mega-poll of 20,000 British adults conducted just ahead of the election shows widespread support among UK public, including Conservative switchers.
By Alasdair Johnstone
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New polling by Focaldata and Persuasion UK of 20,000 British adults conducted just ahead of the election for ECIU finds that over half (53%) of voters who switched their vote from Conservatives to Labour or the Liberal Democrats since the last election, believe that Government policy on climate change should be going further and faster that it has been.
The poll found that nearly half (49%) of the public as a whole wanted the government to go further on tackling climate change.
In addition, nearly half again (48%) thought the Government should continue to introduce policy which reduces the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, even if it means a small amount of inconvenience to people like them, even though policies on EVs, heat pumps and insulation do not put an onus on households to switch.
This was slightly higher (56%) among Conservative to Labour or the Liberal Democrats switchers.
Nearly three quarters (73%) of Conservative to Liberal Democrat switchers support onshore wind in their area and roughly the same amount (72%) support a solar farm. Likewise, there was similar high support and low opposition among those who switched from the Conservatives to Labour with 71% support for onshore wind, 70% support for solar.
Even among Reform UK voters, onshore wind and solar still saw more support – with half backing wind (50%) and solar (51%) in their area – than opposition (21% wind, 20% solar).
The polling echoes the results of another poll conducted by Opinium and released just after the election results were announced showing those switching away from the Conservatives were generally ‘greener’ in their views, and even among Reform voters very little of their motivation to back the party was to do with climate or energy policy.
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