Widespread reports that the US-led coalition had presented the public with an over-optimistic picture of the ease of victory in Iraq appeared confirmed by opinion polls on both sides of the Atlantic on 30 March. In the UK, a survey carried out by YouGov for the Daily Telegraph newspaper found that support for war had fallen for the first time since hostilities began, decreasing to 54 per cent from 59 per cent four days earlier. On the progress of the war, 30 per cent believed that operations were going 'fairly badly,' compared with 10 per cent giving the same response on 27 March. Expectations of a quick war had fallen considerably: 56 per cent of respondents thought that several months would be required to defeat the Iraqi army as opposed to 37 per cent in the earlier poll.