#FINLAND: Agrarian Centre Party Sinks To New Lows In Latest Poll

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Popular support for the Centre Party of Finland has slipped to a historically low polling level.

YLE has revealed that only 10.3 per cent of respondents to its latest opinion poll expressed their support for the conservative agrarian party, representing a decline of 1.4 percentage points from the previous poll.

Pictured above: The centre’s current and former chairs, Annika Saarikko and Juha Sipil

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#NIGERIA: All Progressives Nominee "Unperturbed" By Bad Poll Numbers

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Nigeria's All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has said the standard-bearer of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is unperturbed by recent polls, which show him lagging in public support.

The APC Presidential Campaign Council in a statement by its Director of

Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga described the polls as "dubious, unrealistic and inconsistent." They show Tinubu trailing behind the Labour Party's Peter Obi 21% to 13%. The national election will be held next February. 

A former governor and senator, Bola Tinubu, 70, became the All Progressives Congress nominee in June.

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#CANADA: Poll: Majority Want COVID Restrictions To End

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A majority of Canadians now say it is time to end COVID restrictions, according to an Angus Reid poll, a sharp increase from when the same question was asked in early January.

The latest poll, taken Jan. 27-28, found 54% want restrictions to be lifted compared to just 39% who wanted restrictions lifted when the same question was asked two weeks earlier.

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#UK: Scotland Poll Shows 90% Oppose Gov't Gender ID Bill

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A Scottish Express reader poll suggests mounting opposition to the SNP's plans to enforce gender self-ID laws in Scotland.

Of 608 members of the public sampled, an overwhelming majority of 90 per cent said they opposed the Scottish Government's controversial proposals to push forward reforms to the Gender Recognition Act (GRA).

The poll, hosted on the Scottish Express Twitter account, asked Do you support the SNP's plans to allow people to self-identify their own gender without medical or legal evidence?

The results are in line with the previous, scientific poll, which should 71% of Scottish voters opposed the bill.

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#UK: Poll Shows Labour Well Ahead Of Conservatives

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The Conservative Party has recovered some of its lost lead against the opposition Labour Party, an opinion poll showed last Saturday, but Boris Johnson's personal ratings remain deeply negative as he faces ongoing ethics questions.

Polling company Opinium said Labour's poll rating held at 39% in a January 5-7 survey, unchanged from late December, while support for the Conservatives rose two percentage points to 34%. The Liberal Democrats were on 11% and the Green Party was on 5%.

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Labour Party Leader Starmer Polling Badly

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A recent YouGov survey has found that more than half of the British electorate do not believe Labour Party Leader Sir Keir Starmer is currently up to the top job.

59% of voters, and 55% of Labour voters, feel Starmer is doing "badly," in the role. 

And 61 percent believe Sir Keir does not look like he is PM in waiting, while just 18% think he is.

Twenty one percent of people were unsure.

The polling does not bode well for Starmer as the nation likely heads into an election within a year.

It does, however, match internal party polling.

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