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YouGov - Market research firm to grow eps 11-fold from 6.1p to 68p between FY’14-’26!

June 2024

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When former Prime Minister Teresa “mayhem” May unexpectedly called a General Election three years early in the summer of 2017, she was 20 points ahead and a dead cert to beat the then Labour opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Although most exit polls predicted a comfortable victory for the Conservatives, YouGov was the only one to correctly call a “Hung parliament” using a new statistical technique known as MRP and has gained a terrific reputation for accurate calls such as the 2019 General election; for what it’s worth, it’s currently predicting that Labour will win >400 seats at the next one. However, opinion polls for predicting elections are now only a small part of YouGov’s business and these days its main activity is the provisio ...

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