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Small swings, high drama: why UK polls are less volatile than they seem – in charts

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Small swings, high drama: why UK polls are less volatile than they seem – in charts
In what is beginning to look like a fragmented five-party system, small swings carry outsized political consequences
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In what is beginning to look like a fragmented five-party system, small swings carry outsized political consequences

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Cabinet reshuffles, party infighting, policy reversals, byelections, defections and apparently huge swings in support – the UK’s political news cycle feels especially relentless at the moment.

But if you look closely at the polls since last year’s local elections, remarkably little has changed.

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Source: Guardian - World News

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