A selection of our recent appearances in the UK media.
Politico
25 November 2025
Donald Trump is a hurdle to peace in Ukraine, say Brits
Donald Trump once claimed he could end the war in Ukraine in a day. Brits think the U.S. president is a hurdle to lasting peace. More in Common polling shared with POLITICO’s London Playbook Tuesday found 47 percent of British voters think the U.S. president is a hindrance to efforts to stop the fighting, compared to 21 percent who say he provides a boost.
Just over a fifth (21 percent) said he is neither a help nor a hindrance, while 11 percent didn’t know. An overwhelming 75 percent of voters also think it is important for the U.K. to stand up for Kyiv’s sovereignty, compared to 8 percent who believe it isn’t.
The More in Common think tank polled 2,062 British adults between Nov. 22 and 24, as U.S. and Ukrainian officials worked on a peace agreement in Geneva almost four years after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The overall margin of sampling error for the poll is 2.2 percentage points.
The Telegraph
25 November 2025
Labour to hit its own elite voters hardest in council tax raid
Polling from September by polling group More in Common found that 46pc of voters in the £100,000-plus salary bracket intended to vote Labour, the party’s highest share in any income group, and significantly higher than those with an income of £0 to £14,999 (13pc), and £15,000 to £19,999 (19pc).
Ed Hodgson, of More in Common, said: “Labour voters have higher incomes than the average voter. People who went to private school are also more likely to vote Labour than any other party.
“So I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the people in those £2m-plus homes voting Labour.”
The Independent
25 November 2025
Rachel Reeves wants to achieve these five things with her Budget – it won’t be easy
In recent days, Ms Reeves, the UK’s first female chancellor, has accused her critics of “mansplaining” how to be chancellor – something which she says motivates her to show she is making the right decisions.
But the problem is that she remains deeply unpopular with the public (-52 per cent according to More In Common polling released on Monday). The anger some of her decisions have caused among backbenchers has also raised serious questions about her future as chancellor.
The Express
24 November 2025
Humiliation for Rachel Reeves as even Labour voters think she's a terrible Chancellor
The pre-Budget survey, by More in Common, found voters would even prefer to bring back the last Conservative government, despite the chaos of its final few years. It found 68% of voters thin former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who later became Prime Minister, would be a batter Chancellor than Ms Reeves, and 65% said the same about former Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. On top of that, 63% say Rishi Sunak would make a better Prime Minister than Sir Keir - and that includes 27% of Labour voters.
The Independent
24 November 2025
Two thirds of voters want Reeves to cut spending rather than hike taxes in Budget
More than two thirds of voters would rather Rachel Reeves cut government spending than increase taxes in the Budget, new polling this week has revealed.
Data from More in Common also points to a majority of people thinking that Sir Keir Starmer is doing a bad job, while fewer than one in five think he is doing well.
According to More in Common, the prime minister has a poll rating of -51, one of the worst in recent history. This is made up of 68 per cent of Britons who think that Sir Keir is doing a bad job, compared to just 17 per cent who think he is doing a good job.
Meanwhile, just days before the Budget, the chancellor Rachel Reeve’s approval rating is even worse at -52, also the lowest More in Common has recorded for her.
The Times
22 November 2025
Chancellor to scrap two-child benefit cap but pledge welfare reform
However, a poll by the More In Common think tank suggests that 67 per cent of Britons would rather Reeves filled the fiscal black hole by cutting spending on public services than by raising taxes on working people.
The survey of 2,007 people between November 18-19 also found that 47 per cent of people say that extending the freeze would break Labour’s manifesto promise not to raise income tax.