The Times
23 October 2023
This week, the think tank More In Common published polling on whether the public would be keen on waiting another 15 months. With results that we can roughly precis as “lol, no”
The Times
21 October 2023
Tryl warned: “It leaves the party stuck in catch-22: do they lean in further to the right to win back disgruntled Tories voting for Reform UK, but risk losing many other votes from their liberal flank — or do they accept that there are a handful of seats that could be lost purely because Reform UK wins enough votes to let Labour or the Liberal Democrats in?”
On Monday More in Common will release a poll showing that voters now want an early general election — 73 per cent say it should be before the end of May, while 18 per cent say this year. Only 15 per cent want to wait until next autumn — which Tory chiefs are still planning for — and only 12 per cent until January 2025, the latest month an election can be held.
GB News
21 October 2023
'People are going to vote for him [Keir] out of default because they don’t like the Tories.' UK Director of More in Common Luke Tryl reacts to the double by-election win for Labour in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire.
The Telegraph
20 October 2023
Luke Tryl, the UK director of the More In Common think tank, said: “The Tories will have a new worry after tonight – the emergence of a split on the Right, which saw the Reform UK vote larger than the Labour majority in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire.
“It suggests that Rishi Sunak may now be losing support on two fronts – on the Left to Labour and the Liberal Democrats, and on the Right to Reform UK. Expect to see more hand wringing on splits on the Right in the weeks to come.”
Financial Times
20 October 2023
Polling for More in Common shared with Inside Politics shows that 64 per cent of British people — wholly unsurprisingly! — think that we are in a recession. That the UK has thus far avoided one is not much use to the average household.
TalkTV
18 October 2023
TalkTV
Head of Polling Tyron Surmon speaks to First Edition on public opinion in the run-up to by-elections in Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire