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Huffington Post

13 September 2024

Building A Yellow Wall? Can Ed Davey And His New MPs Capitalise On Their Election Triumph?

Chris Annous of More in Common said the 72 Lib Dem MPs also need to “establish themselves as community champions” if they want to return to parliament at the next election.

“There is room for pushing for a closer relationship with Europe and a quicker timetable on climate action in a way that is unlikely to backfire either in the Blue Wall or the Liberal Democrats own ‘Yellow Wall’, that now extends from Eastbourne to Exmoor, but can instead help the party establish themselves as a distinctive opposition to Labour” he said.

The Daily Mail

12 September 2024

Half of Britons say Labour prioritises trade unions above the national interest, poll reveals

Last night Luke Tryl, executive director of More in Common UK, said: 'While the end of the public sector strikes will be welcome to patients and passengers, the optics of offering generous pay deals at a time of making cuts elsewhere could reinforce a traditional risk for Labour - that they are prioritising trade union interests over the wider public.'

New Statesman

11 September 2024

Rachel Reeves’ great gamble: Labour’s “Iron Chancellor” has staked her credibility on spending cuts. But will she regret it?

Luke Tryl, director of the think tank More in Common, defines the mood as “our country feels broken and we want someone to fix it. It’s a very different paradigm to the public finance focus of 2010.”

The Guardian

2 September 2024

Voters beginning to think Conservatives are ‘weird’, research suggests

Multiple focus groups of former Tory voters suggested that those who had switched their vote at the last election were not inclined to back to the Conservatives any time soon.

The research by More in Common said the party struggled with relatability, particularly in Lib Dem areas, by focusing on topics “which excite the base, or the highly politically engaged” but were distant from ordinary people’s lives.

Huffington Post

2 September 2024

Voters Have Delivered A Brutal Verdict On The 6 Tory Leadership Candidates

Fewer than 10% of the public think any of the Tory leadership candidates would make them favourites to win the next election, a damning poll has found.

The survey, by the More in Common think-tank, found that 34% of voters replied “none of them” when asked which of the six hopefuls would the Tories most likely to form the next government. Some 36% said they “don’t know”.

The Times

1 September 2024

Fear factor can govern the way we vote

“Threat perception” is an attempt to go deeper than identity politics and get to the root of why people vote a certain way, says Luke Tryl, who carried out the polling. What comes through in your view of the state of the world is not merely your perception of physical threat — being worried about criminals slipping through into Britain, for example — but material concerns such as whether you can keep your job or get a hospital appointment.