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Luke Tryl on BBC The Context

24 May 2022

BBC The Context with Christian Fraser 

Luke Tryl (UK Director) speaks to the BBC's Christian Fraser about our ongoing focus groups which show that many don’t see partygate and the response to the cost of living crisis as separate issues, but instead both point to those in charge being out of touch with the experiences of ordinary people
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Channel 4 News

22 May 2022

Sue Gray Partygate report could be published within days

Luke Tryl, More in Common's UK Director, speaks to Channel 4 News about our focus group research ahead of the publication of Sue Gray's report into parties during lockdown in Downing Street

Channel 4 News

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Wakefield focus group shows that voters are done with the PM

20 May 2022

Paul Waugh | Tory MPs may be backing Boris Johnson, but a Wakefield focus group shows that voters are done with the PM

Luke Tryl, director of More In Common, said: “For most, the biggest problem with Johnson and Sunak is that they were seen to be totally out of touch and unable to understand the struggles of people’s everyday lives. This is a telling reversal from last summer and beyond when in similar groups you’d hear people using phrases like ‘Our Boris’ and the sense he was one of them.”

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‘Partygate’ payback as Tory support in the Red Wall collapses

22 April 2022

The Telegraph

The poll, by the think tank More in Common for The Telegraph, also shows a collapse in support in “Blue Wall” areas populated by traditional Tory voters in the south of England, where the Liberal Democrats are targeting Conservative seats.

'Partygate' payback as Tory support in the Red Wall collapses 

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Martin Lewis faces up to a world he can no longer fix

16 April 2022

The Economist 

'Usually, celebrity interventions in politics can be dismissed as the wailing of well-paid luvvies. But they work well when the celebrity in question has experience of what they are talking about, says Luke Tryl from More In Common, a think-tank. 

Martin Lewis faces up to a world he can no longer fix 

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Luke Tryl on Iain Dale's LBC Cross Question

30 March 2022

Iain Dale's LBC Cross Question 

Luke Tryl, More in Common's UK Director, joins Iain Dale and LBC's Cross Question panel with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Journalist, author & political commentator) Chris Daw QC (Legal commentator and author) and Giles Kenningham (former Head of Press for Prime Minister David Cameron)

Iain Dale's LBC Cross Question