The economy was seen by 49 percent of people in the UK as one of the top three issues facing the country in June 2025. The ongoing cost of living crisis afflicting the UK, driven by high inflation, is still one of the main concerns of Britons. Immigration has generally been the second most important issue since the middle of 2024, just ahead of health, which was seen as the third-biggest issue in the most recent month. Labour's popularity continues to sink in 2025 Despite winning the 2024 general election with a strong majority, the new Labour government has had its share of struggles since coming to power. Shortly after taking office, the approval rating for Labour stood at -2 percent, but this fell throughout the second half of 2024, and by January 2025 had sunk to a new low of -47 percent. Although this was still higher than the previous government's last approval rating of -56 percent, it is nevertheless a severe review from the electorate. Among several decisions from the government, arguably the least popular was the government withdrawing winter fuel payments. This state benefit, previously paid to all pensioners, is now only paid to those on low incomes, with millions of pensioners not receiving this payment in winter 2024. Sunak's pledges fail to prevent defeat in 2024 With an election on the horizon, and the Labour Party consistently ahead in the polls, addressing voter concerns directly was one of the best chances the Conservatives had of staying in power in 2023. At the start of that year, Rishi Sunak attempted to do this by setting out his five pledges for the next twelve months; halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce national debt, cut NHS waiting times, and stop small boats. A year later, Sunak had at best only partial success in these aims. Although the inflation rate fell, economic growth was weak and even declined in the last two quarters of 2023, although it did return to growth in early 2024. National debt was only expected to fall in the mid to late 2020s, while the trend of increasing NHS waiting times did not reverse. Small boat crossings were down from 2022, but still higher than in 2021 or 2020. .

As of July 2025, the economy was seen as the most important issue facing the UK according to young voters (aged between 18 and 24). Compared with the overall population, housing and health were seen as more important issues than immigration, which was the joint-second most important issue for the general population.

This statistics shows the most important issues facing Great Britain according to an opinion poll among British adults in Great Britain during June of 2017. Of the respondents, ** percent reported they believed Britain leaving the EU (Brexit) to be the greatest issue their country was faced. National defense and security issues were a cause for concern to ** percent of respondents, while ** percent of respondents believed the current state of the healthcare system to be worrisome. Furthermore, issues concerning immigration and asylum policies were viewed as most important by ** percent of respondents.

Indicators from the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) of what people report are the most important issues facing the UK. Uses longer data collection periods to allow estimates from various personal characteristics.

This dataset arises from the survey work undertaken by four closely co-ordinated projects, which were part of the Devolution and Constitutional Change research programme of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The principal aim of the projects was to establish whether initial reactions to the introduction of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland enhanced (or otherwise) the legitimacy of the United Kingdom and the new institutions themselves.

More specifically the projects aimed to find answers to the following questions:

• Did the introduction of devolution change the distribution of national identity?
• Did support for the UK political system rise or fall?
• Were patterns similar or different across the four territories?
• Can any changes that have occurred in national identity and so on be attributed to devolution or to other processes such as generational change?

There were in addition a number of country-specific issues, for example, support for regional government in England. The objective of the survey research was to provide a firm empirical basis on which to study these questions.

This dataset is derived from several existing sources:

• British Social Attitudes Surveys, 2001 and 2003, produced by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)
• Scottish Social Attitudes Surveys, 2001 and 2003, produced by NatCen and the Scottish Centre for Social Research
• Wales Life and Times Study (Welsh Election Study), 2001 (held at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) under SN 4546), and Wales Life and Times Study (Welsh Assembly Election Study), 2003, (SN 5052), which were produced by the universities of Wales (Aberystwyth) and Oxford, and NatCen
• Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2001 and 2003, produced by the Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive (ARK)

The copyright of the data taken from these surveys rests with the original producers (see copyright statement below).

This statistic shows, according to survey respondents, the most important election issues that should be addressed in the run up to the 2015 United Kingdom (UK) General Election (as of December 2014). With 50 percent of respondents, immigration was considered to be the most important topic, followed by the National Health Service (NHS) and the European Union (EU).

United Kingdom Capital Issues: GBP: Issues: Total data was reported at 13,372.000 GBP mn in Oct 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 14,116.000 GBP mn for Sep 2018. United Kingdom Capital Issues: GBP: Issues: Total data is updated monthly, averaging 13,088.500 GBP mn from Jan 2003 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 190 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 129,347.000 GBP mn in Dec 2008 and a record low of 4,086.000 GBP mn in Aug 2018. United Kingdom Capital Issues: GBP: Issues: Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bank of England. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.KB056: Capital Issuance: GBP.

This statistic shows the percentage of respondents in Northern England who found selected current issues to be of importance to Great Britain as of April 2015. When asked to choose three from the list provided, the two issues that were chosen by over 50% of respondents were the economy and health.

United Kingdom Number of New Issues: UK data was reported at 9.000 Unit in Oct 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 2.000 Unit for Sep 2018. United Kingdom Number of New Issues: UK data is updated monthly, averaging 4.000 Unit from Jan 2018 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 15.000 Unit in Mar 2018 and a record low of 2.000 Unit in Sep 2018. United Kingdom Number of New Issues: UK data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by London Stock Exchange. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.Z012: London Stock Exchange: Number of Issues and Cancellations.

This study surveyed both cross-section and panel samples between 1963 and 1970, in an effort to analyze political change in Great Britain. Interviewing was conducted in four waves: the first wave in 1963, an election-free year, and the next three waves subsequent to the general elections in 1964, 1966, and 1970. The present study contains the master file bringing together the data resulting from the 1963 national cross-section sample, the 1964 and 1966 electorate samples, and 11 additional panels resulting from reinterviewing respondents from one or more of the three samples listed above. Also available through ICPSR are three subsets of these data: POLITICAL CHANGE IN BRITAIN, 1963 (ICPSR 7232) presents data obtained from the 1963 national cross-section sample, POLITICAL CHANGE IN BRITAIN, 1964 (ICPSR 7233) includes the interviews administered to the 1964 electorate sample, and POLITICAL CHANGE IN BRITAIN, 1966 (ICPSR 7234) contains data resulting from the 1966 electorate sample. The interviews focused on the phenomenon of political change. General political attitudes and behaviors were ascertained, as well as possible sources for their change. Variables assessed respondents' sources of political information, perceptions of political parties and leaders, and views on governmental responsiveness, economic well-being, and other salient issues. Other questions probed partisan self-identification and the extent of political participation. The respondents' knowledge of members of parliament from their constituencies, and perceptions of social class and trade-union influence were also investigated. Semantic differential scales were employed to assess respondents' perceptions of the three main parties. Extensive demographic data were collected, including age, sex, marital status, number of children, religion, education, occupation, and income.

This dataset covers the outcome of reported suspect BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) cases in England by year and number confirmed by other means. This dataset includes the fields: Year (of case); Restricted (number of animals where movement restrictions have been imposed); Alternative diagnosis (number that were given an alternative diagnosis to BSE); Alive (number of suspects alive); Slaughtered (number of animals slaughtered); Pending (number of cases with results pending); Not confirmed (number of suspect cases where BSE was not detected); Confirmed (number of cases where BSE was detected); Others confirmed (number confirmed by other means). Please note: this data is available as part of a wider report on TSE surveillance, published on gov.uk.

This statistic shows the opinion of British adults of the most important issues facing the United Kingdom (UK) in January 2015. Immigration and asylum were considered as important as the economy - both on 52 percent - followed by health and welfare benefits.

A survey conducted in April and May 2023 revealed that around a quarter of United States and United Kingdom organizations were highly concerned about data privacy law enforcement involving their company. A further 35 percent were worried about data breaches and other cybersecurity incidents. Dealing with high costs of privacy law compliance was a concern for approximately 20 percent of the respondents.

England’s markets and fairs underpinned one of the densest networks of trade in medieval Europe. The spread of those market institutions, which in England were well established by the eleventh century and then proliferated up to the fourteenth, is a key indicator of the development of a commercial society, and also throws light on patterns of settlement, economic specialisation, and the exercise of power. Yet no comprehensive catalogue of markets and fairs has been compiled. The project collected from various primary printed sources all evidence of enrolled grants and also identified prescriptive markets and fairs to create a gazetteer of markets and fairs for England and Wales up to 1516. This well-recorded set of markets and fairs provides an ideal test-bed for exploring more general issues concerning the interaction between public authority, law, and the growth (or otherwise) of trade. Such issues are currently of central importance for the study of society and economy in both the medieval and the modern world.

United Kingdom Number of Cancellations: UK data was reported at 4.000 Unit in Nov 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 5.000 Unit for Oct 2018. United Kingdom Number of Cancellations: UK data is updated monthly, averaging 5.000 Unit from Jan 2018 (Median) to Nov 2018, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 7.000 Unit in Jul 2018 and a record low of 1.000 Unit in Apr 2018. United Kingdom Number of Cancellations: UK data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by London Stock Exchange. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.Z012: London Stock Exchange: Number of Issues and Cancellations.

United Kingdom Capital Issues: GBP: Issues: Commercial Paper data was reported at 1,581.000 GBP mn in Oct 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2,204.000 GBP mn for Sep 2018. United Kingdom Capital Issues: GBP: Issues: Commercial Paper data is updated monthly, averaging 4,215.500 GBP mn from Jan 2003 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 190 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 22,859.000 GBP mn in Dec 2008 and a record low of 741.000 GBP mn in Nov 2015. United Kingdom Capital Issues: GBP: Issues: Commercial Paper data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bank of England. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.KB056: Capital Issuance: GBP.