YouGov survey finds a 20-point lead for Labour's candidate for mayor
Labour’s Sadiq Khan is more trusted to fight Islamic extremism than his Conservative Party rival Zac Goldsmith, according to new polling data.
A survey by YouGov on the London Mayoral candidates – which showed a massive lead for Khan – found 16 per cent of Londoners felt the assertion ‘will tackle Islamic extremism’ applied to Khan, versus 13 per cent for Goldsmith.
Respondents said the term ‘divisive’ applied more to Goldsmith than to Khan, by 18 per cent to 13.
While these margins are slim, they are at odds with what you might expect, given Goldsmith’s making ‘extremism’ the dominant issue in this election.
It comes as the poll finds a 20 point lead for Khan when second preferences were included, predicting a win by 60 per cent to Goldsmith’s 40 if the vote were held today.
As it stands, Khan is ahead on first preference votes by 48 to 32 per cent.
When YouGov weighted its results to take into account ‘don’t knows’ and intention to vote, Khan’s polling has been consistent at around 30 per cent from January to today. But Goldmsith polling has fluctuated, and is currently lower than it was at the start of the year.
Of those polled, 27 per cent also said they feel Khan ‘cares about people like me’, to Goldsmith’s 10 per cent. Khan is considered ‘trustworthy’ by 21 per cent of people, against Goldsmith’s 14. Khan is expected to ‘improve my quality of life’ by 21 per cent, to Goldsmith’s 10.
Since the YouGov poll was commissioned by the Zac-friendly Evening Standard, it will be interesting to see how they cover the poll in today’s print edition. Their current web headline reads: ‘Zac Goldsmith has mountain to climb as Sadiq Khan stretches poll lead’, which is a curious way of putting things.
Meanwhile, Respect Party candidate George Galloway, who has scored upsets against Labour in east London and Bradford in the past, is currently polling at 0 per cent, behind the neo-fascist party Britain First.
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4 Responses to “Londoners trust Sadiq Khan on Islamic extremism more than ‘divisive’ Zac Goldsmith”
ZP
Of course they would seeing as 51% of londoners are now foreign born
Spike Humphrey
The endorsement of ‘Dodgy Dave’ for Zac’s dog whistle tactics is the final nail in the coffin for the Goldsmith campaign. Dave’s popularity even with Tory voters has reached a new low.
CR
“Sadiq Khan shared a platform with five Islamic extremists at a political meeting where women were told to use a separate entrance, the Evening Standard can reveal.”
See: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/sadiq-khan-shared-platform-with-five-islamic-extremists-a3231436.html
Alexsandr
They are mad. Sadiq belongs to a mosque whos immam says that Amadis are apostates and should be killed. And he had an aide who tweeted about ‘f**king faggots’ and referred to women as ‘hoes’
I assume he was not talking about offal meat balls or garden weeding implements.
But shows Kahn has questions to answer about his acquaintances. and his own views.
does he supposrt Iran and Hammas in their vows to destroy Israel? or would he denounce them, for intance?