The Minimum Wage: Labour supporters’ most popular Labour achievement

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

LabourList readers have voted the National Minimum Wage as Labour’s biggest achievement over the last 12 years of government, in a poll conducted with IPPR ahead of its fringe event at conference next week.

The minimum wage received twice as many votes as the next most popular Labour achievement.

Speaking about the polls – which were conducted to take grassroots voices to the conference fringe – Carey Oppenheim, IPPR’s co-director, told Politics.co.uk:

“The aim is to try and open up the debate beyond the four walls of the conference. This is only the beginning but I think it’s a recognition that the way that conferences have operated in the past is just too closed.”

The full results of the poll were:

National Minimum Wage: 37%
NHS improvements: 18%
Other public service improvements: 12%
Peace in Northern Ireland: 8%
Efforts on poverty eradication: 8%
Tax credits: 6%
Other: 11%

IPPR asked for the views of 50 LabourList readers, who volunteered to take part in the poll last week. More results will appear here over the coming days.