News

The Guardian

22 April 2024

Keir Starmer asks Labour candidates to 'fly the flag' on St George's Day

Labour insiders have pointed to polling from More In Common in 2019 that found that when people were asked whether seeing the British flag flying made them feel “good” or “bad”, 75% of respondents replied “good”. A group called “progressive activists” – described by More In Common as being most likely to vote for Labour, the Greens and the SNP – were the only segment in which a majority (69%) replied “bad”, compared with 31% among other respondents.

New Statesman

22 April 2024

The Rwanda bill won’t save the Tories

A fascinating bit of polling, conducted by More In Common earlier this month, asked people whether and in what circumstances they would consider the plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda in order to deter illegal Channel crossings “a success”.

Just 10 per cent of people said it would be a success regardless of the impact it had on Channel crossings, 22 per cent said it would have to significantly reduce crossings, and 25 per cent that it would have to eliminate crossings entirely. Crucially, support was no greater among those who voted Conservative in 2019 – indeed, 33 per cent of 2019 Tory voters said they would only consider the Rwanda plan a success if crossings stopped altogether. As a reminder, Rwanda has only agreed to take up to 150 migrants, at a cost of £1.8m each, making its capacity to stop crossings a highly contentious topic.

The Guardian

21 April 2024

UK voters frustrated with politicians' 'desperate' culture war tactics, survey finds

Voters have been left frustrated with “desperate” culture war tactics deployed by politicians and are prepared to punish those who use them at the ballot box, a survey has found. Electoral strategies based on culturally charged and divisive issues repulse swing and undecided voters, who see politicians as “playing to the crowd” or “jumping on the bandwagon”, according to research from More in Common commissioned by 38 Degrees.

Huffington Post

20 April 2024

Why Rishi Sunak's Electoral Mountain Has Become An Impossible Climb

Any Tories seeking even a glimmer of hope will be horrified by the latest polling by the More in Common think-tank, which demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that the party is heading for catastrophe whenever the election takes place.

The Independent

20 April 2024

Blackpool South voters turn on 'Richy' Rishi Sunak ahead of crunch by-election

Mr Tryl, UK director at More In Common, said if there was one word to describe how the focus group viewed politics it was “cynical”. The pollster told The Independent: “They felt that politicians had neglected Blackpool and that they were only in public life for themselves.

the i

19 April 2024

It's not the sleaze that will finish off the Tories - it's incompetence - Paul Waugh Column

A new poll by the More in Common think-tank this week listed the attributes most associated with Sunak. For most, he was “out of touch”. But the second most common complaint was that he was “incompetent”.