The findings are based on a survey of 2,210 UK adults aged 18 to 75 conducted between 24 and 26 March 2021.
Vaccine discrimination and passports
- 39 per cent of the public believe unvaccinated people will face discrimination, compared with 28 per cent who do not share this concern.
- 44 per cent predict that vaccination passports will be sold on the black market, compared with 18 per cent who think they won’t.
- 25 per cent think vaccine passports will reduce our civil liberties – but 50 per cent think they won’t negatively affect personal freedoms.
- 22 per cent believe vaccine passports will be used by the government for surveillance – but double this proportion, 45 per cent, think they will not. People from ethnic minority groups (37 per cent) are around twice as likely as white people (21 per cent) to think the passports will be used for surveillance.
How the vaccination effort has affected public trust in the UK government
When people are asked how their trust in the UK government has changed as a result of the overall experience of the pandemic, 18 per cent say it has increased, while 39 per cent say it has decreased (39 per cent say it’s made no difference).