{"id":5662,"date":"2020-01-15T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T11:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2020-01-15T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T11:58:33","slug":"professor-sir-john-curtice-visits-parliamentary-studies-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2020\/01\/15\/professor-sir-john-curtice-visits-parliamentary-studies-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Sir John Curtice visits Parliamentary Studies class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of the highlights of semester one was the visit of\nProfessor Sir John Curtice to our Level 6 Parliamentary\nStudies<\/em> module. As Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde and\nSenior Research Fellow at the National\nCentre for Social Research<\/a>, he is widely regarded as the country\u2019s best\nknown polling expert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of a public lecture as part of the Vice Chancellor Series, Professor Curtice took part in a Q and A session with our politics staff and Parliamentary Studies<\/em> students. He covered a wide range of topics including the 2019 general election, Brexit, Scottish independence and the reliability of polls. On the day (12 November 2019), Professor Curtice declared the election too close to call. Nevertheless, his predictions that the Conservatives would win, Corbyn would go, the Brexit Party would fail to gain a seat and the SNP would secure a large number of seats in Scotland, all proved correct despite the volatile voting patterns of the British public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n