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28 August 2024

UK snubs EU over rejoining popular Erasmus student swap scheme

The government’s comments on Erasmus come as polling commissioned by POLITICO found that 51 percent of British voters believe rejoining the program would be a good idea, with just 15 percent against. Twenty-six percent thought it was neither a good nor bad idea and nine percent said they didn’t know.

The survey, conducted by pollsters at the More in Common think tank, found that supporters of all parties except Nigel Farage’s pro-Brexit Reform UK were supportive of rejoining. Even Leave voters back reentry by 38 percent for and 26 percent against, while Remain voters are in favor by 68 percent in favor to five percent against.

Huffington Post

28 August 2024

Exclusive: Almost Two Thirds Of Brits Think Starmer's Government Only Wants To Help Itself

More in Common’s director Luke Tryl told HuffPost UK: “Labour’s large majority was built on such a small share of the popular vote so a long honeymoon was unlikely but this rapid fall in Starmer’s personal ratings, along with perceptions of No10 cronyism, should worry the new government.

“It’s clear that the winter fuel allowance restrictions and early release of prisoners have gone down badly with the public and it will make landing the difficult decisions in the Autumn budget even harder.”

Financial Times

28 August 2024

More than half of Britons disapprove of Labour government, poll finds

The YouGov survey came as a poll by think-tank More in Common conducted between August 24 and August 27 found Starmer’s approval rating had fallen to -16, the lowest score the think-tank has ever recorded for the Labour leader.

The fall from +6 earlier this month, when Starmer received a bounce from his response to the riots, came after the government faced questions over its handling of appointments after a party donor and several other Labour-linked figures were given senior civil service roles.

The Daily Mail

28 August 2024

Labour minister left squirming during BBC Newsnight interview as he fails to defend party over 'passes for glasses' scandal

It comes as a More In Common poll found 63 per cent of people believe Sir Keir's Government is only interested in helping its allies, while 53 per cent say Labour is 'very' or 'somewhat' corrupt. Even 23 per cent of Labour supporters think the party is corrupt.

The Daily Mail

23 August 2024

Brits say Sir Keir Starmer was wrong to give train drivers bumper pay rises, the Daily Mail's EXCLUSIVE poll reveals

The exclusive poll, by campaign group More In Common, found 47 per cent of the public think handing train drivers the bumper settlement will 'fail to prevent strike action from rail workers'.

Only a third said they believe it will prevent further walkouts.

Forty-five per cent also said the Government 'should resist big pay increases [for train drivers], even if it means the strike goes on for longer.

the i

21 August 2024

Battle of Brexit 2.0: Farage’s plan to push ‘deeply vulnerable’ Starmer on ECHR

Jim Blagden, associate director of the think-tank More in Common, says that adopting a stance to leave the ECHR would likely set the Tories further back in “Blue Wall” seats in the South of England which the party lost to Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

Polling by MiC in March found that Blue Wall voters were twice as likely to think we should stay in the ECHR rather than leaving it. More broadly, Blagden says that the ECHR is a “low salience” issue for the public and many people “don’t really know what it is”. Majoring on the issue could reinforce perceptions that the party is “out of touch”.