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The Sunday Times

26 July 2025

What Britons think about Israel, boats and our ‘chaotic’ world

Britons see the world in 2025 as “chaotic” and “dangerous” as global conflict reaches the highest level since the end of the Second World War, a poll shows.

They believe the UK’s power is diminishing while countries such as China and Russia — and the United States — are growing in stature and might, the study of more than 2,000 people by More in Common, the think tank, found. The pollster also carried out a focus group in Plymouth.

The Sun

26 July 2025

Shock poll shows UK is set for ‘Rainbow Coalition’ which will shatter current system – but will it make us ungovernable?

BRITAIN is heading for a five-party “Rainbow Coalition” for the first time in its history if there is a small shift in the polls, experts have warned.

Pollsters More in Common recently carried out a massive survey predicting how people may vote at the next election, seat by seat. It predicted a coalition government is on the cards in 2029.

The Economist

23 July 2025

The peril of trying to please people

Compromise has already damaged Sir Keir’s government. An unpopular scheme to remove an (up to) £300 winter-fuel allowance from pensioners has been partly reversed. Now pensioners who earn less than £35,000 a year, which is about three-quarters of them, will receive it. A cost-saving measure will save almost no costs, as a compromise. Before the decision Labour could count on the support of about 13% of pensioners. After the decision, it is about 15%. Once focus groups complained about the elderly losing £300 a year, points out Luke Tryl, from More In Common, a pollster; increasingly, they grumble about u-turns.

The Independent

17 July 2025

Labour voters back doctors over five-day strike and think Wes Streeting should meet pay demands

Labour voters support junior doctors’ plans to stage a five-day walkout next week, even as public support for the strike collapses, according to a new poll.

Overall people oppose the industrial action due to start next Friday by a margin of 44 per cent to 34 per cent, pollsters More in Common found.

However, Labour voters support the strikes, with 47 per cent in favour and 35 per cent against, in a major challenge to the stance taken by the health secretary Wes Streeting who has vociferously pressed doctors’ leaders to ditch their plans.

The Telegraph

17 July 2025

The seats that Labour’s teenage voters will steal from Reform

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new hard-Left political party could create an earthquake for younger voters.

One in three voters aged under-25 previously said that they would consider voting for this new party when it formally emerges.

Analysis from More in Common also highlights that seats with the highest number of 16 to 17-year-olds saw independents and Workers Party perform their best.

Young voters, it would seem, are the most drawn to Labour, but also the most likely to stray from the traditional Left altogether.

BBC News

17 July 2025

Which parties could benefit from lower voting age?

In the UK, 16 and 17-year-olds make up only around 2.8% of the population aged 16 or above, so researchers say the impact on party vote share is likely to be negligible.

Turnout for elections also tends to be lower for younger age groups and if this is also true for 16 and 17-year-olds they would be an even smaller proportion of the electorate.

Luke Tryl, UK director of political research group More in Common, says he would not expect this age group to have "an outsized impact".

However, he adds: "Then again we are in an era where small shares of the vote can deliver you lots of seats in multi-party politics."