Ipsos MORI Members of Parliament survey

January 2021

Ipsos MORI Syndicated Stakeholder Surveys | Members of Parliament Winter 2020 | Report Date: January 2021 | Version 1 Ipsos MORI’s Survey of Members of Parliament Ipsos MORI’s Survey of MPs is a syndicated survey that has been Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the survey is currently being carried run bi-annually for over 40 years, providing a flexible and cost- out over telephone but it is usually conducted face-to-face by our effective way to understand the views and opinions of specialist team of executive interviewers, which ensures that Westminster. clients get responses to questions from the MPs themselves. Our interviewers are skilled in probing for in-depth answers to open ended questions to provide rich qualitative insight. Our research is tailored and carefully designed to: Questions are answered by 100 MPs each wave, from a sample 1.1 Measure reputation performance relative to peers that’s representative of the House by party and ministerial status.

2.2 Identify the drivers that create reputational value Clients receive an interpretive report, produced by our dedicated 3.3 Shape stakeholder engagement strategies team of specialist reputation researchers, with analysis of the findings, recommendations on how to improve reputation and 4.4 Build communication campaigns and measure impact communications, as well as a face to face/video conference 5.5 Understand future opportunities and risks presentation.

3 To find out more, contact the team:

Guto Hunkin Sam Schoen Associate Director Senior Project Executive

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2 © Ipsos MORI Syndicated Stakeholder Surveys | Members of Parliament Winter 2020 | Report date: January 2021 | Version 1 | Internal/Client Use Only Most impressive parliamentarian – by party Who, in your opinion, is the most impressive parliamentarian of any party at the moment? Who else?

% top mentions (1st or other mentions) Among Conservative MPs Among Labour MPs

Rishi Sunak 44 62

Matt Hancock 23 12 Andrew Bowie 9 12 8 10 7 Nick Thomas-Symonds 10 7 7 7 Peter Bottomley 7 6

Steve Baker 6 Wes Streeting 6

Priti Patel 6 Colum Eastwood 4

Base: Conservative MPs (49), Labour MPs (29)

3 © Ipsos MORI Syndicated Stakeholder Surveys | Members of Parliament Winter 2020 | Report date: January 2021 | Version 1 | Internal/Client Use Only Most impressive parliamentarian – leader trends Who, in your opinion, is the most impressive parliamentarian of any party at the moment? Who else?

Leader of the Conservative party Leader of the Labour party 100 % mentions (1st or other mentions) amongst own party 80

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0 W04 S05 W05 S06 W06 S07 W07 S08 W08 S09 W09 S10 W10 S11 W11 S12 W12 S13 W13 S14 W14 S15 W15 S16 W16 S17 W17 S18 W18 S19 W19 S20 W20 Boris Johnson

Gordon Brown Tony Blair Keir Starmer Base: All Conservative MPs (57), All Labour MPs (30)

4 © Ipsos MORI Syndicated Stakeholder Surveys | Members of Parliament Winter 2020 | Report date: January 2021 | Version 1 | Internal/Client Use Only Methodology and composition of sample

3 4 11462874 7 3 14 7 3 14 7 Conservative Minister Conservative Backbencher 18 18 21 Labour Shadow Minister 53 Labour Backbencher 14 44 14 44 12 SNP Other Structure of the house % Weighted sample % Unweighted sample %

Sample: 394 MPs contacted and 135 MPs interviewed. Circa 100 MPs were asked each client section (versioning was used to control interview length) and 86 MPs answered the most impressive parliamentarian question. Quotas and weighting used so results reflect the House by ministerial status within political party. Broad sample controls also set on region and gender. Fieldwork dates: 9th November – 22nd December 2020 CATI (Phone) interviews with MPs (usually interviews are done face-to-face, but the methodology was switched to CATI in 2020 due to COVID-19). Across those interviewed this winter (before versioning applied) 84% were interviewed in summer 2020, and 66% were interviewed in winter 2019.

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Guto Hunkin James Allen Associate Director Research Manager [email protected] [email protected]