News Breadcrumb Home News ... Dr Stephen Fisher appointed to panel to find out what went wrong with the election forecasts Date 8 Jun 2015 Stephen Fisher Share image/svg+xml image/svg+xml image/svg+xml 'Election count' photo by Coventry City Council / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The day after the UK general election the British Polling Council announced that, together with the Market Research Society, it was going to have an inquiry into what went wrong with the forecasts. Stephen Fisher has been appointed to its panel.You can read more about this inquiry by clicking here: http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/9428 Other news Image 30 Apr 2026 Young audiences are redefining how they consume news, new Reuters report argues Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Image 26 Mar 2026 Public online panel moderated by DPIR’s Scott Williamson to focus on how the media is attacked during episodes of ‘democratic backsliding’ Scott Williamson
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