Economic attitudes polling for the TUC

New polling by Hold Sway for the TUC shows the British public’s number 1 priority for the government is the cost of living, with a heavy focus on energy bills. The survey shows strong public agreement that people who work for a living should “earn a decent wage, be treated with dignity and respect and have secure terms and conditions.” They also back a call for the government to have stronger control over essential services like energy and water.

In a policy test, we found strong cross-party support for:

• Helping young people get vocational and skills training

• Raising capital gains tax and tax on income from investments to match taxes on wages

• Workers on zero-hours contracts to get the right to guaranteed hours after 12 weeks in the same role

• A cut in energy bills for low-income households, paid for by a new tax on banks.

Voters also tend to agree that public services should not be run to generate profits for private shareholders.

Data tables on this poll can be downloaded here.