News

Times Radio

25 April 2024

“It’s really bad news for the Conservatives.” New polling sees the Tories hit their lowest ratings since Liz Truss’s premiership, says Luke Tryl, UK director of More in Common.

The News Agents

23 April 2024

The News Agents

More in Common's polling on Englishness for UCL Policy Lab discussed on the News Agents podcast

The Times

23 April 2024

Rishi Sunak can't tell us 'we're on the right track' - Daniel Finkelstein

More in Common, the source of a good deal of fascinating political opinion research, has shared with me exclusively some of its latest work. And it shows how deeply pessimistic people are. “Our analysis,” it says, “is that British public opinion has got so used to things being bad/chaotic it’s hard to imagine anything else.”

The Times

22 April 2024

Is Crime in the UK really on the rise? The reality in charts

Is the UK more dangerous than it used to be? There’s no shame if you think it is: when surveyed earlier this month, some 69 per cent of us said crime rates were going up. Just 6 per cent believe crime is falling, according to the poll of 2,000 people by the More In Common think tank — only slightly more than the 5 per cent who believe the world is getting colder.

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.