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GB News The Briefing

6 September 2022

Luke Tryl, UK Director, joins Tom Harwood's The Briefing on GB News to talk about More in Common's public opinion insights during the Conservative leadership election as Liz Truss is appointed as Prime Minister

The Times

5 September 2022

The Times

Liz Truss hasn’t lost the public yet. Here’s how she can win them over

As the race has unfolded it has become clear the public is not that interested in which interviews the contenders did or did not do. They simply haven’t noticed the debates that have taken place across social media over the summer, indeed no one has yet brought up the sewage row dominating Twitter feeds.

Times Radio

5 September 2022

Times Radio

Luke Tryl, our UK Director, talks with Times Radio's John Pienaar about the challenges facing the new Prime Minister Liz Truss and our public opinion insights through the course of the leadership contest

The Sunday Times

4 September 2022

The Sunday Times

When it comes to levelling up, people want changes to be “hyperlocal”, says Luke Tryl, UK director of More in Common, who has been canvassing red wall voters for the past three years. “It certainly isn’t about big infrastructure to make it easier for people to get to London, but it’s also not even about redoing up the big park in the centre of town, which most people don’t use on a regular basis.

The Observer

4 September 2022

The Observer

Luke Tryl, a former Tory special adviser and now director of More in Common, an organisation that has conducted regular focus groups on the candidates, said people warmed to Truss’s apparent straightforwardness – her ordinariness as a person and politician. They were qualities that had more appeal in the country than in the Westminster bubble.

The Sunday Times

28 August 2022

The Sunday Times

The context of the pandemic — a time of extraordinary personal sacrifice — heightened the reaction, according to Luke Tryl, UK director of the More in Common think tank. “It was such a blatant contrast between what they’d been asked to do and what they’d been doing in Downing Street.” He detected a similar reaction in focus groups after the lockdown trip to Barnard Castle by Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings.