ABSTRACT
In 1983 and 1993, two MORI public opinion polls conducted in England offered respondents a list of people in different occupations and asked of each ‘Would you tell me whether you generally trust them to tell the truth or not?’. The 1983 results disclosed that only 16% and 18% of respondents trusted government ministers and politicians respectively to tell the truth. By 1993 the figures had declined to 11% and 14%. The polls asked the same question about judges. They fared much better, but not as well as priests. They scored 77%. However, by 1993, this figure had declined to 68%.1 The question was not asked about lawyers.
