A selection of our recent appearances in the UK media.
Wakefield focus group shows that voters are done with the PM
20 May 2022
Luke Tryl, director of More In Common, said: “For most, the biggest problem with Johnson and Sunak is that they were seen to be totally out of touch and unable to understand the struggles of people’s everyday lives. This is a telling reversal from last summer and beyond when in similar groups you’d hear people using phrases like ‘Our Boris’ and the sense he was one of them.”
‘Partygate’ payback as Tory support in the Red Wall collapses
22 April 2022
The poll, by the think tank More in Common for The Telegraph, also shows a collapse in support in “Blue Wall” areas populated by traditional Tory voters in the south of England, where the Liberal Democrats are targeting Conservative seats.
'Partygate' payback as Tory support in the Red Wall collapses
Martin Lewis faces up to a world he can no longer fix
16 April 2022
'Usually, celebrity interventions in politics can be dismissed as the wailing of well-paid luvvies. But they work well when the celebrity in question has experience of what they are talking about, says Luke Tryl from More In Common, a think-tank.
Luke Tryl on Iain Dale's LBC Cross Question
30 March 2022
Iain Dale's LBC Cross Question
Luke Tryl, More in Common's UK Director, joins Iain Dale and LBC's Cross Question panel with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Journalist, author & political commentator) Chris Daw QC (Legal commentator and author) and Giles Kenningham (former Head of Press for Prime Minister David Cameron)
Mariella Frostup | Times Radio
2 February 2022
Mariella Frostup | Times Radio
Luke Tryl, UK Director of More in Common joins Mariella Frostup on Times Radio to discuss the release of the government's white paper on levelling up and how far it goes to meet Briton's everyday expectations.
If levelling up doesn’t happen, beware the anger of the left behind
2 February 2022
The think tank that organised the focus group, More in Common, worry that the sort of disillusionment and anger we witnessed in Blackpool South is not just widespread across the Red Wall. It’s also highly fertile ground now for a charismatic populist-extremist to exploit, from the far Left or far Right. A British Hugo Chavez, a more dangerous Farage 2.0, an emboldened Donald Trump.