25 May 2023
Dismay in the Red Wall constituencies across the North and Midlands is higher than in the UK overall - but the picture painted is still bleak.
A majority of the 2,017 adults quizzed nationwide this month by More in Common for the left-leaning The New Britain Project think tank fears the UK is a country in decline.
21 May 2023
Sunday Telegraph (print edition)
NHS employees are the only striking workers who still enjoy significant public support, a survey has found. The survey by More in Common of 2,017 adults showed nurses had the strongest backing. Asked whether they were right or wrong to strike, 55 per cent thought they were right and 31 per cent wrong - net support of 24 per cent.
Luke Tryl, More in Common's UK director, said: "Our polling shows that the public largely blames the government for the clear sense that so much of Britain isn't working but there isn't consistent backing for striking workers."
19 May 2023
Luke Tryl, UK director of More in Common, said: “While visible and vocal opposition to Ulez charges can often dominate the headlines, our polling suggests Londoners remain more likely to back the plans than not.
“The problem is that despite the broad consensus on the need to tackle air pollution, the Mayor’s all-or-nothing approach appears to have totally polarised the debate, with Labour voters backing the plans but Tory voters dead against them"
18 May 2023
Timely polling by More in Common for the Power Test podcast has found half of respondents “don’t know” Labour’s Brexit policy … while a study of 2,016 people by Portland says only 31 percent of the general public “understand Starmer’s vision for Britain.” The comms agency says the Labour leader’s “Ming vase strategy” has “worked so far but has its limits."
18 May 2023
Tryl says that all his organization’s research shows the British public shies away from the sort of rhetoric on display at this conference. “When we focus-group people in Conservative areas, we find this sort of stuff is off-putting. People who are not exactly soft liberals, who roll their eyes at the culture war anti-woke stuff, still try and address it from a position of kindness.”
Tryl says that, unlike in America, British people don’t have “stacked ideologies,” meaning you cannot predict what someone will think on one issue because of what they think on another. “It is often the case someone is anti-illegal migration but in favor of people taking the knee, for example"
17 May 2023
The cost of living remains a top priority for voters, with 75 percent selecting it as one of the biggest issues facing the country in a More in Common poll, while 20 percent chose asylum seekers crossing the Channel. Supporting the NHS also increased to 43 percent from 38 percent — More in Common’s U.K. Director Luke Tryl said: “Despite the PM’s pledges to halve inflation, only one in four Brits think the cost of living crisis will end this year or next