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inews

18 January 2023

inews

A similar trend emerged in a report by the think tank More in Common last summer, which also found that Britons ranked “the debate about transgender people” as the least important issue facing the country today, from a list of 16 options. Only two per cent of people chose it as one of the three most crucial issues, compared with the cost of living, which topped the list and was selected by 64 per cent of those surveyed, while the NHS came in second, selected by 32 per cent.

Substack

17 January 2023

The most misunderstood debate in British politics

While a trans obsession delights and excites some corners of Twitter, in the real world it makes a party that alights upon it look at best distracted and at worst cruel. Research by the More In Common organisation found that compassion is the starting point for most of the public when approaching these issues. Any party that attempts to exploit these issues for political gain risks alienating the median voter:

The Telegraph

14 January 2023

The Telegraph

With the Tories reliant on both older voters and Red Wall constituencies for their parliamentary majority, the perceptions of the NHS aired by the group pose a serious electoral danger to Mr Sunak. Luke Tryl, the UK director of More in Common, who moderated the session, told The Telegraph: “For this group their worries about the NHS weren’t theoretical, they were personal.

“Every single one of the pensioners we spoke to had a story of how they, or people close to them had suffered at the hands of a system on the brink.”

The Guardian

13 January 2023

The Guardian

Luke Tryl, the director of the thinktank More in Common, which conducts frequent focus groups, confirmed that he and his colleagues had been hearing from a growing number of former Brexiters who had lost faith.

He described “the horror on people’s faces – and you can literally see it on people’s faces in focus groups – when you talk about going back to Brexit debates”, adding: “The big reason they don’t want to touch the ‘rejoin’ thing is that they think it would be four more years when that’s all we would talk about.”

The Times

9 January 2023

The Times

Luke Tryl, UK director of the More in Common think tank, suggests much of Harry and Meghan’s support comes from a far smaller subset of the population than simply remainers or the young: their fans are “progressive activists”. These people make up about an eighth of the population but have a disproportionately loud voice on social media, have high incomes but low accumulated wealth and mostly vote Labour.

The Telegraph

6 January 2023

The Telegraph

More in Common, an organisation that conducts focus groups across the country, has found voters are frustrated and underwhelmed by his start in Number 10. Luke Tryl, its UK director, warned that people in the North and Midlands who backed the Tories in their 2019 landslide “haven’t warmed” to the Prime Minister but said he has done better in winning back some of the more liberal Conservatives in the south who supported David Cameron.