A selection of our recent appearances in the UK media.
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5 December 2024
Can Donald Trump Help Reform UK Win The 'Bro Vote'?
So far there is little evidence that Farage is having anything like the same effect as Trump. Overall youth support for Reform has not shifted since the general election, holding steady at around 11 per cent.
Support from 18- to 24-year-olds is relatively evenly split between men and women, according to More in Common, but for 25- to 34-year-olds this begins to diverge – 16 per cent of young men supporting Reform compared to just 11 per cent of young women.
“We’ve seen young men move to parties of the populist or radical right. So, I definitely don’t think it’s impossible, it just hasn’t quite happened yet,” explains More in Common director Luke Tryl.
The Daily Mail
1 December 2024
Around 72 per cent of MPs born in the 1990s were in favour - compared to 40 per cent of those born in the 1970s and 38 per cent of those born in the 1950s, according to the think tank More in Common.
Ed Hodgson, of More in Common, said: 'What's interesting is the age gradient does not match the general public. Across Britain, support for assisted dying increases as people get older, but it was the oldest MPs who were more likely to vote against the Bill.
There could be many reasons - perhaps because older MPs are more likely to be religious or from the Conservative Party, where opposition was concentrated. It's possible the Bill's success could have been partially helped by the younger cohort of MPs elected this July.'
The Independent
25 November 2024
Labour is losing the PR battle over the ‘tractor tax’
Who will decide who wins the fight between the government and the farmers? The public – and, according to opinion polls, the farmers appear to be ahead.
More in Common found that 57 per cent of people support making farmers exempt from inheritance tax, including 45 per cent of Labour voters. YouGov reported that a narrow majority (52 per cent) would support protesting farmers withholding non-perishable items, such as meat or certain crops, for a week.
The Guardian
24 November 2024
Labour has got off to a shaky start in government. It’s time it told the truth about the state we’re in
Voters have lost faith in politics to deliver and are desperate for things to get better. Polling from More in Common shows just 31% of people think democracy is working and 62% think politicians aren’t up to facing the country’s challenges. Trust in politicians has more than halved since the mid-1980s. The most common word people use to describe Britain is “broken”.
More in Common director Luke Tryl tells me there is an overwhelming feeling in focus groups that, despite doing the right thing and working hard, at the end of the month people feel as if they have nothing to show for it. He thinks that the steep fall in Labour’s approval ratings isn’t just a product of the government’s shaky start, but a huge impatience for things to improve.
The Sunday Times
24 November 2024
Two thirds of country back assisted dying
This weekend, a study drawing on the polling of more than 15,000 people by the think tank More in Common found the public almost five times as likely to support assisted dying as not, when they have a view, with 65 per cent in favour and only 13 per cent opposed. Nearly a quarter (22 per cent) were undecided.
Fifty-five per cent of those surveyed said they would consider assisted dying if they were diagnosed with a terminal illness. Of those who are against assisted dying, 58 per cent were religious. The position holds irrespective of political affiliation, age, gender, nation, ethnicity and educational attainment. The highest proportion of people who strongly support assisted dying was among 65-74-year-olds (44 per cent).
Financial Times
24 November 2024
Britain’s political consensus on climate starts to fracture
In 2019, the House of Commons unanimously passed legislation committing the UK to a legally binding target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, an unusual display of parliamentary unity. That political consensus is now under strain.
Polling by More in Common shows there is no constituency in Britain where concern about climate change is lower than 50 per cent of voters.