Trust in politicians in Great Britain (GB) 2013

This statistic shows the level of trust in politicians in Great Britain (GB) on October 17th-18th, 2013. The majority of respondents had 'not much' trust in politicians. More specifically, least trust was held in leading Liberal Democrats to tell the truth, with a total of 74 percent of respondents trusting them either 'not much' or ' not at all. This was, however, only 1 percent higher than the result for leading conservatives.

How much do you trust politicians to tell the truth?

Characteristic	Local MP	Liberal Democrat	Conservative	Labour
Don't know	10%	7%	6%	6%
Not at all	16%	32%	36%	28%
Not much	36%	42%	37%	42%
A fair amount	31%	17%	18%	20%
A great deal	6%	2%	2%	3%

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Release date

October 2013

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Region

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Survey time period

October 17th-18th, 2013

Number of respondents

2,311 respondents

Age group

18+

Supplementary notes

Politicians were split into the following four categories: My local MP; Leading Liberal Democrat politicians; Leading conservative politicians; Leading Liberal Democrat politicians; Leading Labour politicians
During the survey, this question was posed as follows: "How much do you trust the following to tell the truth?"

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