Ms Lorna Hayes:

We cannot answer definitively but I would imagine it is more lack of confidence than women not actually knowing, for some reason. It is something worth exploring more. In the future we are thinking of doing focus groups on one or two of the issues with people so we can delve a bit deeper into the reasons. We could also look at the gender dimension if we do that.

On the Deputy's other point about EU-US, our poll happened in late March just a few weeks after President Trump and President Zelenskyy had that meeting in Washington. Very much on the agenda were: the US talking about potentially excluding the EU from peace negotiations with Russia; matters about NATO; and tariffs that were going to happen. This might explain the prominence of that issue.