Thanks to the ever excellent Blairwatch for pointing me towards this recent MORI poll:
Polling Data
Do you approve or disapprove of the way the prime minister, Tony Blair, is handling the current situation with Iraq?
———————–Approve———–Disapprove————–Don’t know
May 2007…………….17%………………..77%……………………6%
Jan. 2003…………….26%………………..62%…………………..13%
Sept. 2002…………..43%………………..49%…………………..11%
Do you approve or disapprove of the way the president of America, George W. Bush is handling the current situation with Iraq?
———————–Approve———–Disapprove————Don’t know
May 2007…………………9%…………………85%…………………6%
Jan. 2003………………..19%………………..68%………………..13%
Sept. 2002………………30%………………..59%………………..11%
Which, if any, of the following statements comes closest to your own view about the war in Iraq?
I supported the war and I support it now 11%
I supported the war but do not support it now 22%
I did not support the war but I support it now 3%
I did not support the war and I do not support it now 61%
Source: Ipsos-MORI
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 961 British adults, conducted from May 11 to May 13, 2007. No margin of error was provided.
Which result is quite astonishing, given the almost complete absence of anti-war voices from broadcast media. Also interesting how opinion polls on Iraq are virtually unreported in the media, given that such public opposition to a war this country is fighting is an extremely rare phenomenon.