11 April 2023
More in Common’s Luke Tryl tells the Guardian that the risk is “Starmer leads ahead of Sunak on whether he would ‘be a fresh start’ after an election. But voters do not like the fact that he always attacks and says nothing about what he’d do."
11 April 2023
A report from More In Common published earlier this year found that nearly seven in ten people believe that the police have given up on trying to solve minor crimes altogether. This polling, paired with Public First’s discovery that 41 per cent of people believe that the police are more interested in “being woke” than solving crime, reflects a dangerous trend.
10 April 2023
Experts have suggested this could pose a problem for Labour, if they are keen to continue presenting their party as different from the Conservatives. Luke Tryl, UK director of More in Common, believes the advert about Sunak and child abuse will cut through to the public like Boris Johnson’s slurs against Starmer on Jimmy Savile did last year. But he suggests attacks like the crime campaign could reinforce the negative stereotype that Starmer will be a politician just like the rest, without fresh ideas. “Starmer leads ahead of Sunak on whether he would ‘be a fresh start’ after an election. But voters do not like the fact that he always attacks and says nothing about what he’d do,” he said.
10 April 2023
Similar stories are reported regularly in town centres across the UK, with 54 per cent of people telling pollsters More in Common in January that the police were not taking antisocial behaviour seriously enough.
9 April 2023
More in Common UK director Luke Tryl speaking on current politics
7 April 2023
More in Common UK director Luke Tryl speaking on Labour's recent attack ads, and how this is likely to be received by the public