Has the UK become a joke country with 7 prime ministers in 10 years?
The verdict
Voters called it: 78% said yes, the UK has become a joke country, with the verdict holding almost uniformly across age, gender and geography. Read more →
Should the UK adopt the £13.5bn defence investment plan?
The verdict
Ten votes to nine: as close a verdict as this platform can produce, on a question the government itself struggled to sell to its own ministers. Read more →
Should members of the public decide asylum appeals instead of immigration judges?
The verdict
With just 21 votes cast, the small chamber that turned out delivered a lopsided verdict: 15 to 6 against handing asylum appeals to lay citizen panels, a 42-point rout for the judges. Read more →
Should Andy Burnham's Greater Manchester model be used as a blueprint for national government?
The verdict
A near dead heat nationally masked in tiny samples, with Burnham's devolution blueprint narrowly voted down 12-11 - the closest possible verdict on whether Manchester's model deserves Westminster's crown. Read more →
Should a new No 10 unit be based in Manchester?
The verdict
With just 21 votes cast, No 10's Manchester unit was voted down two-to-one, the chamber unconvinced that devolving Westminster's machinery north would amount to more than symbolism. Read more →
Do you agree on a 22% tax on cash and ISA?
The verdict
No on a 22% tax on cash held in Stocks & Shares ISAs, 38-22, a 26-point margin among the 60 who voted, with the sharpest rejection coming from the very savers the reform targets: 25-44 year-olds. Read more →
Does the Department for Culture, Media and Sport provide adequate leadership to England's national museums?
The verdict
A narrow-ish rebuke: 16 of 28 voters said DCMS is failing its museums, echoing the Public Accounts Committee's own verdict, with no age or gender group breaking the other way. Read more →
Should Andy Burnham give more powers to local government to spread economic growth?
The verdict
A narrow, unevenly-distributed win for devolution: 15 to 12 overall, but among the under-45s who dominated turnout it was more like a rout, with 25-44s backing Burnham's plan by roughly two to one. Read more →
Should the UK build hybrid warships instead of new destroyers?
The verdict
A dead heat: 15-15 on 30 votes, the platform split exactly down the middle on whether to scrap destroyers for drone-ready hybrids. Among the 20 with profiles, 35-44s leaned firmly yes while 25-34s and 55-64s couldn't agree with themselves. Read more →
Should the government investigate JD.com’s UK expansion over state subsidy concerns?
The verdict
A dead heat, 13-13, on a question that split the small sample almost by age cohort — younger voters leaning against an investigation, older ones firmly for it, though most groups were too thin to call a trend. Read more →
Should power be shifted from London to the regions?
The verdict
A near-dead heat that broke, narrowly, for the status quo: of 33 votes cast, 17 said No to shifting power from London to the regions against 16 Yes — a one-vote margin that leaves devolution's biggest prize unresolved. Read more →
Should Andy Burnham pursue the biggest transfer of power out of Whitehall in modern times?
The verdict
A one-point win on a 29-vote turnout — Yes edged it 15 to 14, as narrow a verdict as the platform can deliver on a question about redrawing the British state. Read more →
Should Ed Miliband be appointed chancellor under Andy Burnham?
The verdict
A Miliband chancellorship was never really in contention here: voters rejected the idea by four to one, 20 to 5 of 25 cast, one of the more one-sided verdicts the chamber has delivered on a personnel question. Read more →
Should the next prime minister increase defence spending to meet the Moscow test?
The verdict
A near-unanimous chamber: 18 of 21 backed higher defence spending to meet the "Moscow test", with dissent confined to a single wobble among a small group of women voters. Read more →
Would you still vote Brexit today?
The verdict
The chamber said Yes to re-running Brexit today, 35 to 29 of 64 votes cast — a 10-point margin that mirrors, almost eerily, the only age group large enough to trust: the 25-34s split 6-5 for Yes, a coin-toss result that tracks the national verdict to the point. Read more →
Should companies pay a levy when replacing workers with artificial intelligence?
The verdict
A close-run thing rather than a rout: No held on at 32 votes to 26, a 10-point margin that suggests the automation-levy idea splits opinion far more evenly than most tax proposals on the platform. Read more →
Are subscription services dead?
The verdict
No won 21-17, a narrow verdict masking a sharp split: every 55-64-year-old backed "dead" while every other age band, bar a scattered yes, said subscriptions live on. Read more →
Is Game Pass by Xbox like communism?
The verdict
A near-even national split masks a sharper generational fault line: of the 17 voters with profiles, the 25-34s broke 7-0 for No while 35-44s went unanimously the other way, on whether a £15-a-month subscription counts as communism. Read more →
Will Andy Burnham make for an effective Prime Minister?
The verdict
Voters here declined to install Andy Burnham as prime minister-in-waiting, 31 to 24 on 55 votes, a 12-point margin that flatters the "no" camp less than the near-blanket scepticism in the profiled sample suggests. Read more →
Has Nigel Farage contributed to the downfall of four Prime Ministers?
The verdict
A narrow win for the proposition that Farage has been serial regicide-in-chief: 30 to 26, just 8 points apart, on a chamber too small to call a verdict but big enough to sense an argument still unsettled. Read more →
Was Keir Starmer right to resign?
The verdict
Yes carried it by a landslide 72-28, with 41 of 57 voters saying Starmer was right to go — a verdict on a premiership that ran out of MPs willing to defend it long before it ran out of days. Read more →
Is Keir Starmer's legacy a good one?
The verdict
A dead heat with a thumb on the scale: 28-25 for Yes, a 6-point margin that is really a coin toss dressed up as a verdict on the Prime Minister's record. Read more →
Would Andy Burnham be a worse Prime Minister than Keir Starmer?
The verdict
A near dead heat, settled by four votes out of 52 — the chamber narrowly judged Burnham the worse bet, in a vote too close to call any kind of mandate. Read more →
Is the United Kingdom ungovernable?
The verdict
Voters here declared Britain ungovernable, 58-42, on 52 ballots — a clear if not crushing verdict, delivered by a chamber too small in its demographic data to say much more than that the doubt runs wide. Read more →