Who opposes lockdown?

Something that has been fairly consistent in the polling on lockdown is that most people are supportive of restrictions. While this particular post relies heavily on British Election Study wave 20, which was back in June 2020, there has not been any dramatic movement in opinion on lockdown - the noisy cross-tabs of YouGov and Survation polls have shown that support for lockdown has remained strong since the first UK lockdown in March 2020 until now. On June 14th of this year, YouGov released a poll showing that 70 per cent of people in England supported the government’s decision to delay the re-opening from June to July. Looking back to January, 37 per cent of people believed that the stricter measures introduced at that point were ‘just right’, and 48 per cent believed that they were not strict enough, leaving only 9 per cent of people saying that restrictions were ‘too strict’. The chart above (using data from the BES) shows the extent to which the British public support lockdown -…