1 October 2022
Luke Tryl, the UK director of More in Common, said: “Anxiety about the reaction to the mini-Budget, the rising cost of living, and a perception that the Conservatives haven’t yet delivered on levelling up, tackling crime or stopping small boats mean that if things carry on as they are, the door could be open to the next Nigel Farage to eat into the Conservative vote.
30 September 2022
The Conservatives could do well to compete with Labour on the green agenda, according to focus groups from More in Common, details of which were shared with Playbook. The campaign found that ignoring so-called “green pragmatists” could cost the Tories their Blue Wall of heartland seats. Green pragmatists aren’t die-hard climate campaigners but see net zero as a necessity and rate the environment as one of their top three issues and a voting motivation. They also accept that fossil fuels will help with the cost of living crisis and are skeptical of green utopias, wanting a realistic plan for net-zero that won’t upend their lives.
24 September 2022
There is some evidence that the public will give Truss the benefit of the doubt for now. In a focus group with voters from the marginal Midlands seat of West Bromwich East conducted by Luke Tryl, a former Tory political adviser, on Friday evening, many questioned the effectiveness and fairness of the budget measures. But they also said it was “too soon” to judge Truss...In a vote at the end of the focus group, they divided six for Truss and two for Starmer.
21 September 2022
In midst of negative news coverage about the government and the UK more broadly, More in Common UK Director Luke Tryl outlines what the government has been getting right.
15 September 2022
More in Common’s director, Luke Tryl, who carried out the research, summed it up: “For this group, there was no conflict between being the monarch and holding strong views. They knew the king had opinions on things like the environment, thought he had been ahead of the curve on climate change and expected he’d keep voicing them, either privately to the government, or through his son.”
14 September 2022
WHAT ABOUT THE NEW PM? It wasn’t quite the first week Truss and her team had planned, but a focus group in Oldham on Monday night, run by More in Common for POLITICO, reckoned the new PM has come out of it well. Robert, a construction industry worker, said Truss had been well advised to stay in the background, and thought she had conducted herself well. The group generally wanted to give Truss a chance, even though she hadn’t previously particularly been on their radar.