23 April 2024
More in Common's polling on Englishness for UCL Policy Lab discussed on the News Agents podcast
23 April 2024
Rishi Sunak can't tell us 'we're on the right track' - Daniel Finkelstein
More in Common, the source of a good deal of fascinating political opinion research, has shared with me exclusively some of its latest work. And it shows how deeply pessimistic people are. “Our analysis,” it says, “is that British public opinion has got so used to things being bad/chaotic it’s hard to imagine anything else.”
22 April 2024
Is Crime in the UK really on the rise? The reality in charts
Is the UK more dangerous than it used to be? There’s no shame if you think it is: when surveyed earlier this month, some 69 per cent of us said crime rates were going up. Just 6 per cent believe crime is falling, according to the poll of 2,000 people by the More In Common think tank — only slightly more than the 5 per cent who believe the world is getting colder.
22 April 2024
Keir Starmer asks Labour candidates to 'fly the flag' on St George's Day
Labour insiders have pointed to polling from More In Common in 2019 that found that when people were asked whether seeing the British flag flying made them feel “good” or “bad”, 75% of respondents replied “good”. A group called “progressive activists” – described by More In Common as being most likely to vote for Labour, the Greens and the SNP – were the only segment in which a majority (69%) replied “bad”, compared with 31% among other respondents.
22 April 2024
The Rwanda bill won’t save the Tories
A fascinating bit of polling, conducted by More In Common earlier this month, asked people whether and in what circumstances they would consider the plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda in order to deter illegal Channel crossings “a success”.
Just 10 per cent of people said it would be a success regardless of the impact it had on Channel crossings, 22 per cent said it would have to significantly reduce crossings, and 25 per cent that it would have to eliminate crossings entirely. Crucially, support was no greater among those who voted Conservative in 2019 – indeed, 33 per cent of 2019 Tory voters said they would only consider the Rwanda plan a success if crossings stopped altogether. As a reminder, Rwanda has only agreed to take up to 150 migrants, at a cost of £1.8m each, making its capacity to stop crossings a highly contentious topic.
21 April 2024
UK voters frustrated with politicians' 'desperate' culture war tactics, survey finds
Voters have been left frustrated with “desperate” culture war tactics deployed by politicians and are prepared to punish those who use them at the ballot box, a survey has found. Electoral strategies based on culturally charged and divisive issues repulse swing and undecided voters, who see politicians as “playing to the crowd” or “jumping on the bandwagon”, according to research from More in Common commissioned by 38 Degrees.