10 June 2023
“These tests will be a real chance to see if Sunak is saving the day,” he said. Adams’ former constituency of Selby could be the first chance to see if “Labour is on course to win 1997 or somewhere short of that mark”, Tryl said.
10 June 2023
In an interview with the Yorkshire Post, Luke Tryl, the UK direcotr of the More in Common organisation, said the changing face of constituencies will start to have a "big impact" at the next election
10 June 2023
Labour has been substantially ahead of the Conservatives in the polls for months, but Sunak's individual rating has stayed ahead of his party and generally level with opposition leader Keir Starmer. But pollsters say there are now signs that the Prime Minister's ratings are heading in a negative direction.
“Some of the [Sunak] shine has come off,” Luke Tryl, UK director at think tank More In Common, where he leads research into public opinion, told PoliticsHome earlier this week. “We have seen that both in our quantitative and qualitative data."
7 June 2023
Luke Tryl, the UK director of the More in Common group, said there was “the potential for quite a large” Labour victory – but cautioned the party should not be complacent because it could merely be “winning by default”. He added Labour’s support remained “quite soft” and that the party that would win the next election was the one that could “best convince people that it’s OK to turn on the six o’clock news and not be worried”.
7 June 2023
Luke Tryl, UK director of the More in Common group, cautioned Labour not to be complacent that it would be “winning by default” at the next election, and that support for the party was “quite soft”.
“You’re in a situation where people at the moment are going to Labour by default, not because they love the Labour Party,” he said. He said an overriding theme of focus groups was that people “just want politics to stop”, and the party that wins the next election will be the one that can “best convince people its OK to turn on the six o’clock news and not be worried”.
7 June 2023
Luke Tryl, UK director of the More in Common thinktank, said focus groups were showing support for Labour but the lead was still "quite soft".
"You've got the potential for quite a large and quite significant Labour victory in the next election. But it is quite soft," he said. "A lot of it at the moment seems like Labour winning by default, rather than having won over lots of people."