19 November 2023
The UK government's flagship levelling-up agenda is at risk of losing public confidence in its promise to improve high streets, a new report has found.
The research, by More in Common and Power to Change, suggests less than a quarter of people surveyed think their high street is improving.
19 November 2023
UK Associate Ed Hodgson speaks on BBC Radio 4 Westminster Hour
18 November 2023
Op-ed by UK Director Luke Tryl "Focus group in Jeremy Hunt’s constituency likens government to ‘a runaway train’ that is ‘losing credibility'"
14 November 2023
Luke Tryl, director of the More in Common think tank, concludes the effect could be significant in more liberally-minded constituencies where Conservatives are under pressure from the Liberal Democrats, areas sometimes referred to as the Blue Wall.
“[Those voters] will feel quite reassured to have someone like David Cameron back,” Tryl said, “but also by Cleverly, who is far more of a team player than Braverman, even though they share some of the same views.”
14 November 2023
Polling by the More in Common think tank found that the government’s failure to tackle illegal migration and Channel crossings is the main reason why 2019 Conservative voters will not vote for the party again at the next general election.
13 November 2023
For a start, it’s doubtful that voters are ready to focus on immigration right now. Recent polling from More in Common shows that the cost of living is their top issue by a wide margin, followed by the NHS and then climate change. “Asylum seekers crossing the Channel” is only the fourth-placed issue. What’s more, the Sunak government, with its bizarrely random policy agenda — e.g. compulsory maths, scrapping HS2 and cracking down on pedicabs — has not laid the groundwork for a single-issue snap election