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A selection of our recent appearances in the UK media. 

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Autumn budget 2021: Voters remain sceptical despite liking Rishi Sunak’s speech

28 October 2021

The Times

"Great ... if it all actually happens.” That was the double-edged verdict of voters in the South Yorkshire constituency of Rother Valley who watched the chancellor’s budget speech yesterday.

Autumn budget 2021: Voters remain sceptical despite liking Rishi Sunak’s speech

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Rother Valley Focus Group

28 October 2021

London Playbook 

Focus group: In another barometer of public opinion More in Common’s Luke Tryl has a fascinating write-up of a focus group held yesterday in the South Yorkshire constituency of Rother Valley in the Times this morning. It was with voters who swung strongly behind the Conservatives from Labour in 2019. “As the speech went on, and ever-larger numbers started to flash up on the TV, the questions quickly turned to where all this extra money was going to come from,” Tryl writes.

Focus Group

Rotherham Goal

The cost of living in Rotherham

27 October 2021

Sky News

At a focus group organised by More in Common, Sky's Lisa Holland measured the response to the Government's proposed budget from those living in Rotherham.

The cost of living in Rotherham

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Changing Mood

21 October 2021

London Playbook 

"A factor in ministers’ desire to resist stricter measures is their belief that, while the public were overwhelmingly supportive of the lockdowns and restrictions pre-vaccine, the mood changed once people got double-jabbed. Kantar polling for More in Common finds just over 60 percent of people are fairly or very concerned about the prospect of another lockdown."

Changing Mood

The Times Jo Cox

Starve the oxygen of hate MPs have to fend off

18 October 2021

The Times

"We must make every effort to stop giving oxygen to the climate of hate, trolling and threats of violence that is all too familiar to MPs, their staff and families (and indeed to journalists and other public figures). That is vital if public life is to continue attracting people like Sir David and Jo."

Starve the oxygen of hate MPs have to fend off

Focus Group Heywood

‘Crisis of trust’ between politicians and voters

11 October 2021

Channel 4 News

"Britain's political system broken, politicians disconnected from the real world... a system where it's one rule for them and another for everyone else. That's the damning verdict of a landmark report looking at how the British public sees the state of British democracy."

Crisis of trust between politicians and voters