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Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - Web posted at 10:24:18 GMT British minority opposed to Iraq war: poll LONDON, Sept 17 (AFP) - British opposition to a possible war on Iraq has fallen sharply since last month, with a minority now against military action, according to a London newspaper poll published Tuesday. |
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Forty percent of respondents to an ICM poll for The Guardian said they were against a war on Iraq, down 10 percentage points in just three weeks. ICM's latest phone poll on Iraq, carried out last weekend on 1,002 adults across Britain, showed 36 percent of respondents in favour of military action, up three percentage points. Twenty-four percent were unsure, a rise of seven points on three weeks ago. The public was simply asked whether it supported any war and not whether it was in favour of a UN-backed or US-led war or if it supported British troop involvement. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is the European leader who most strongly backs US President George W. Bush's hard line on Iraq, although his government has put more emphasis on reviving UN arms inspections than on Saddam Hussein's ouster. The biggest shift in opinion was among men, with 37 percent of male respondents opposing military action, down 13 points from 50 percent. Forty-four percent of men said they approved of war, an increase of eight points. Forty-two percent of women said they now opposed war, down eight points, though the number of females in favour fell by three points to 28 percent. bcp/bm Nampa-AFP WEB story ENDS (NAMPA 170254) |
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