|  | | Thursday, 9 October | | | Britons split on letting pubs stay open late | | | | The Guardian has reported plans by ministers to allow pubs in England and Wales to stay open until the early hours in a push for UK growth | |
| | Our poll finds that 47% of Britons support allowing pubs to stay open into the early hours, while 41% are opposed | |
| | While the reporting did not specify a new closing time, we gave respondents a suggestion of 2am | |
| | The public are heavily divided on generational lines – while 67% of 18-24 year olds are in favour, this falls with each successive age group to just 27% of the over-65s | |
| | Men are also notably more likely to approve than women (55% vs 40%) | |
| | | | | | | | Kemi Badenoch grabbed headlines yesterday by pledging to abolish stamp duty for main homes during her speech at Conservative conference | |
| | Unsurprisingly, the abolition of the much-maligned tax is very popular with the public, with 63% supporting scrapping stamp duty | |
| | | | The move would be popular across parties, including 80% of Tories, 76% of Reform UK voters, 71% of Lib Dems and 59% of Labour voters | |
| | | | | | | | A key image battle between political parties in recent years has been the desire to be seen as the party of the working class, with Nigel Farage earlier this year saying that Reform UK now had that title, not Labour | |
| | The British public as a whole is fairly split on the question, with 22% most associating Labour with representing working class people and 19% doing so of Reform UK, although 28% feel there is no party that best fits the bill | |
| | However, C2DEs - those classed as living in working class households - are not so evenly split, believing that Reform UK most represent working class people by 22% to Labour's 15%, alongside 30% who say no such party exists | |
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