21 July 2023
Luke Tryl, director of the More in Common research organisation which aims to tackle division in society, said “organic” tactical voting was evident as voters backed the party that had the best chance of defeating the Tories in each seat, rather than the result of any formal pact.
“Voters are very savvy, that will worry the Conservatives because tactical voting at that scale repeated at a general election could cost them 30 to 40 seats,” he said.
21 July 2023
Luke Tryl, UK director of research group More In Common, said the Selby result confirmed “the Conservatives are in a very deep hole”, while Uxbridge “probably paints a picture of what the Conservative strategy is going to be” in a general election. He suggested the Tories could point to failings within Labour administrations across the UK.
Mr Tryl said: “They are going to be running the Uxbridge strategy on a national scale, identifying those wedges, I expect them to be talking a lot more about Labour administrations in Wales, in London, in Manchester, and looking for examples of potential extra costs that will put on people, similar to what they did with Ulez.
21 July 2023
Luke Tryl discusses the significance of this week's byelection results on LBC with Ben Kentish.
21 July 2023
The survey of 2,052 adults by think tank and pollster More in Common conducted after last week's pay award found only 19 per cent disagreed with the government's figure, with widespread backing across supporters of all major political parties.
Some 45 per cent say junior doctors are wrong to continue strike action in light of the hike and only 38 per cent say they are right to plough on. This is a significant reversal from a previous poll in May, when 48 per cent supported the medics and 35 per cent said they should return to the wards.
Luke Tryl, UK Director of More in Common, said: 'Having been offered a pay deal which the public think is fair, if overdue - sympathy for striking doctors appears to be wearing thin. Support for striking doctors has reversed compared with our previous polling suggesting that it is now the BMA not the government who has to win the battle for public opinion.'
20 July 2023
The majority of voters think that the Minister for Immigration made the wrong decision in instructing staff at an asylum centre to paint over a mural of Mickey Mouse, polling from More in Common shows.
“As this polling shows, the danger for Sunak’s Government is that they risk ending up in the worst of all worlds – failing despite endless promises, to meet people’s expectation of stopping Channel crossings but instead recreating a ‘nasty party’ image through what the public see as acts of wanton cruelty”, adds Luke Tryl.
20 July 2023
Asked which party they trusted more to stop crossings, more than half the public (58 per cent) said “neither”, the More In Common survey shared exclusively with i showed.
Only around one in five trusted the Tories (22 per cent) or Labour (20 per cent) to get a handle on the crisis, despite the Prime Minister making “stop the boats” one of his key five pledges.