2 October 2024
Could the Tories win the next election?
As a new study by More in Common shows, 17 per cent of Labour supporters already regret their vote and the public narrowly prefer Rishi Sunak’s government to Starmer’s (by 31 per cent to 29 per cent). An increasingly volatile electorate – the trend that allowed Labour to recover from a bad defeat in a single term – could aid the Tories.
1 October 2024
Sunak’s government more popular than Labour, poll reveals
It now transpires that more people prefer Sunak’s government to Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot, according to polling by More in Common.
More in Common quizzed 2,080 people on their thoughts on the governments of late. 31 per cent preferred Sunak’s boys in blue, with 29 per cent logging their support for Sir Keir.
27 September 2024
Luke Tryl, the director of the think tank, said: “After some tough headlines this week the Starmer slide in approval has continued.”
26 September 2024
23 September 2024
Labour already predicted to lose next election, bombshell poll reveals
More in Common's UK director Luke Tryl said: "It may seem extremely premature to be looking ahead to the next election just months after the last one, but with such a volatile electorate Labour needs to be thinking not just about how to hold on to its existing coalition, but how to grow that broad but shallow base of support if it is going to have any chance of holding onto power."
22 September 2024
‘I’m fuming’: ex-Labour voters’ anger at Starmer freebies row
In two focus groups organised by the More in Common think-tank this week, voters in Rochdale and Manchester were scathing about the Prime Minister and his wife, Victoria, receiving gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds.