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Opinion polls never lie?

Since the Second World War, UK politics has been addicted to opinion polls, which now dominate every election campaign. Alex looks at the chequered history of political surveys with today’s supreme polling guru, Sir John Curtice. And for a sceptical take on the misuse of polls by the mainstream media, he turns to James Kelly of the blog Scot Goes Pop…

Opinion polls never lie?
Former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond hosts a new political chat program, ‘The Alex Salmond Show’, on RT, where he vows to battle the mainstream media narrative and take the news “out of the Westminster nexus.” ‘The Alex Salmond Show’ will take viewers inside the Welsh, Irish and Scottish parliaments, also looking at the government of Northern Ireland, not forgetting Westminster.