20 September 2024
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.
20 September 2024
Reform is Labour’s problem now
Leading pollster argues that Keir Starmer needs to take Nigel Farage's party head on.
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.
17 September 2024
Keir Starmer issued urgent Farage warning as Labour on 'far shakier ground' in Red Wall
More in Common pollster Luke Tryl told Politico that though the success of Nigel Farage's party helped deliver an emphatic Tory wipeout, it could spell trouble for Labour's hopes of re-election.
17 September 2024
How the Lib Dems hope to replace the Tories as the opposition
According to analysis by the More in Common think tank, the Lib Dems could lose about 20 seats on a 5 per cent Lib Dem to Tory swing.
16 September 2024
Luke Tryl, from More in Common, which ran focus groups during the election, said Labour’s refusal to fight Farage was “risky.” While Reform won most of its votes among people who would normally back the Tories, Farage also stopped Labour winning back voters who supported Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in 2019 in former industrial heartlands known as the “Red Wall.”