There has been a big story about UKIP’s vote ‘dropping by 6%’ in an opinion
poll. This poll was produced by ICM and is a monthly opinion poll. In April,
they showed us at 9%. In May, this increased to 18% and in June it is now 12%.
ICM’s methodology is one of the least favourable to UKIP – not only do they not include UKIP in the list of choices, but they also assume that voters who say ‘don’t know’ are likely to go back to their previous parties and include them to an extent in the figures. Jonathan Arnott, National General Secretary.