So many of the most important questions facing the UK are not even appearing in the general election campaign. The main parties prefer to keep to safe topics where they can attempt to draw timid 'dividing lines' with each other. That's why, throughout GE2024, UnHerd has teamed up with pollsters Focaldata to ask voters what they really think — about the things the politicians prefer not to talk about. Welcome to UnHerd Britain 2024.
| Would you want to fight in the British Army in each of the following circumstances? |
| Percentage of UK voters |
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| UK voters: foreign policy should be based on national self-interest |
| Which of the following comes closer to your view? |
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| Do you think Britain should be more or less engaged in overseas conflicts? |
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| British voters: UK should disengage from Israel-Hamas war |
| British voters |
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| Do you think the UK should align itself more with the US, China, or neither? |
| British voters |
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| Attitudes to Ukraine |
| British voters |
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| Would you want your children to fight in the British Army in each of the following circumstances? |
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| "The state of Israel should not exist" |
| Percentage of UK voters who agree, by age group |
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| Who do you blame for the war in Gaza? |
| Percentage of UK voters by age group |
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Only 16% of Brits would fight to defend France 80 years on from D-Day, attitudes to war are very different
Britain doesn’t want to go to war Eighty years after D-Day, the nation's mood has changed
Where is Britain’s grand strategy? Neither party is prepared for the coming war
