No Man's Land
7 April 2023
Martin and Steve are joined by Luke Tryl, UK Director of More in Common to talk about the state of divides in UK society, the political weather and education policy
Politico London Playbook
3 April 2023
The two main parties are clearly throwing everything they’ve got at crime and punishment in the run-up to the locals — but are there really votes in home affairs? Playbook spoke to Luke Tryl of More in Common to find out what his research suggests on this. He said crime was “creeping up in focus groups across the past year,” with the sense that the police have given up on what they describe as “low level” crime a particular concern. And despite some Twitter sneers, Tryl picked up a lot of irritation about laughing gas canisters littering public spaces, the target of last week’s government anti-social behavior crackdown.
The Telegraph
1 April 2023
New polling by More in Common shows that more people say they do not intend to celebrate or watch the Coronation than will. Luke Tryl, More in Common’s UK director, said: “What with the psychodrama of Harry and Meghan, the disgrace of Prince Andrew, and the cost of living dominating the public’s mind, the Palace is going to have to work hard to convince people to tune into a Coronation that many don’t think is worth the cost. “If the prospect of an extra Bank Holiday isn’t enough to get people excited, the Palace really has its work cut out.”
Politico London Playbook
31 March 2023
Luke Tryl, director of More in Common, which organized the group, told Playbook the verdict was “a plague on both your houses” as the government was seen as failing on the NHS and leveling up, but voters were also “frustrated that Keir Starmer seemed to spend more time playing politics than spelling out what he would do differently.”
The Guardian
20 March 2023
Conleth Burns, senior associate at More in Common UK, said: “This week’s budget and the recent flurry of government deal-making might have impressed Westminster insiders, but it simply wasn’t cutting it for the voters we spoke to in South Swindon. “The government might have hoped that the last few weeks would have jump-started the Tories’ electoral recovery, but this group in Swindon shows that any real recovery is a long way off. In fact, many of this group thought Labour could’ve done a better job with the budget, and almost all agreed that Labour wouldn’t have done a worse job.”
The Guardian
19 March 2023
Luke Tryl is a former Conservative special adviser under David Cameron and director of the social cohesion campaign group More in Common. He regularly runs focus groups in both leave-voting red wall areas and more traditionally Conservative “blue wall” ones, which split between leave and remain. "The dominant mood in our politics at the moment is exhaustion, and the prize is for the person who can limit that. Boris is a return to the drama, which the political junkies love and the public really don’t – they want not to have to turn on the news,” says Tryl, who thinks most voters are more worried about their energy bills than Brexit