A selection of our recent appearances in the UK media.
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22 September 2024
‘I’m fuming’: ex-Labour voters’ anger at Starmer freebies row
In two focus groups organised by the More in Common think-tank this week, voters in Rochdale and Manchester were scathing about the Prime Minister and his wife, Victoria, receiving gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds.
The Sunday Times
21 September 2024
Inside the week psychodrama returned to Downing Street
More in Common polling shows how the public mood has turned against Labour in their first few months in government, as the party heads into their annual conference.
The Independent
21 September 2024
Jim Blagden of pollsters More in Common said Reform’s vote split into two camps - disillusioned populists and the radical right.
Most Reform voters are disillusioned populists, he said, a group that believes immigration brings more negatives than positives. “But they think that violence against refugees is never justified and that the recent riots are best described as racist thuggery,” he added.
Huffington Post
20 September 2024
Is The Party Over Already? Keir Starmer Aims To Get Back On The Front Foot After Worst Week Yet
Any hope Labour have that the public will see “frockgate” as a Westminster bubble issue are forlorn, according to Luke Tryl of the More in Common think-tank.
“In the focus groups which we regularly hold with a variety of voters from all over the country, we hear consistent anger about these kinds of issues,” he said.
New Statesman
20 September 2024
Reform is Labour’s problem now
Leading pollster argues that Keir Starmer needs to take Nigel Farage's party head on.
The Spectator
20 September 2024
The freebie scandal could cost Keir Starmer
As the precipitous drop in Starmer’s approval ratings shows, the new government does not have much political capital to spare. It needs to take back the agenda and stop this freebie scandal from happening again. Failing to do so will not just be bad for the Labour party, but bad for the public’s faith in our political system itself.