19 June 2024
Around 60 per cent of Brits would rather have Keir Starmer as their GP as opposed to Rishi Sunak, a poll has revealed. Labour leader Sir Keir was more popular among young people aged between 18 and 34, the research from More in Common showed.
19 June 2024
Could Labour’s ‘left-wing cull’ come back to haunt the party at the general election?
“In terms of the calculated decision Starmer has made, looked at purely from electoral logic, it makes sense,” says Luke Tryl, Executive Director of the More in Common research group.
“If Starmer was going to win back those voters Labour lost, particularly in places like the red wall, he was going to have to convince them that he had changed the Labour party and that it was different to what had come before under Corbyn.”
19 June 2024
The YouGov, Savanta and More in Common polls were released after a cabinet minister became the first to concede that Labour is heading for a “large majority”.
All three were carried out using the so-called “MRP” method, which surveys more people than normal and gives a seat-by-seat prediction to supposedly try to come up with a more accurate forecast.
18 June 2024
Rishi Sunak accuses Keir Starmer of only wanting to lower voting age to 'entrench his power'
Mr Sunak's comments come after a poll by More in Common found that the public thinks Labour only wants to make the change for its own electoral self-interest.
16 June 2024
According to research from consultancy firm More in Common, about 15% of voters are still undecided.
Kuenssberg hit back: “Isn’t that exactly the point?
“There are still millions of people in this country, probably many of them watching this morning, who haven’t decided what they’re going to do yet, and they’re hearing from you, is not ‘hey here’s our positive vision’.
15 June 2024
Voters think that Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is more proud to be British than the Conservatives under Rishi Sunak, polling has found ahead of the general election.
Mr Sunak was scored second lowest in a list of politicians when it came to perceptions about patriotism, with only Jeremy Corbyn viewed as less patriotic than the Prime Minister.
The research by the UCL Policy Lab and the More in Common think tank also found that the public think that politicians are less patriotic today than they used to be.