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20 September 2023
UK Director Luke Tryl speaks to BBC News about the government's planned reversal of several climate policies
20 September 2023
UK Director Luke Tryl speaks to BBC News about the government's planned reversal of several climate policies
20 September 2023
What do polls show? Pollsters have previously warned the Tories that retreating from green policies would hurt them. In June, Luke Tryl, director of public opinion research group More in Common, told i that moving away from policies aimed at tackling climate change “would backfire to go in a totally different direction.”
20 September 2023
UK Associate Ed Hodgson speaking to LBC radio (01:07:15) on public opinion on Net Zero
20 September 2023
Across all parties, voters are much likelier to say the government should do more, not less, on climate (see chart). They do want a fair transition, but Mr Sunak “risks putting the Conservatives on the wrong side of Britain’s climate consensus”, says Luke Tryl, of More in Common uk, a think-tank that carried out polling on the issue.
20 September 2023
Ed Miliband told Politico: “The interesting thing is if you talk to all of the people who look at these things, if you look at the More In Common polling, for example, the public are really smart about this. The public are very in favour of tackling the climate emergency because they see it as a route to good jobs for the future.
19 September 2023
According to Luke Tryl, UK Director at polling company More in Common, while evidence shows that the British public is open to talking about how the UK relationship with the EU can be improved, the Labour leader faces a "tightrope" walk between addressing post-Brexit ties issues and making himself vulnerable to Tory claims that he wants to reopen the 2016 referendum debate.