Ipsos MORI Veracity Index, 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic necessitated a switch from the traditional face-to-face interviewing to telephone fieldwork.

The majority of questions were put only to those (approximately one-third of the total) who had indicated they were open to adopting or fostering or had already done so.

Results were also reported for a sample of 525 black and minority ethnic individuals.

Places of worship were closed by government decree for three months after the imposition of a national lockdown to combat Covid-19 in late March 2020. They were cleared for reopening from early July.

QAnon is a conspiracy theory, originating with the US far-right in 2017, which alleged that then US President Donald Trump was waging a secret war against a cabal of powerful satanic paedophiles who were supposedly kidnapping, torturing, and even cannibalizing … Continue reading →

Under the provisions of the Sunday Trading Act 1994, large shops in England and Wales were only allowed to open for a maximum of six hours on Sundays.