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21 May 2024

Labour’s ‘first steps’ pledges: Poll reveals what voters think

The Labour leader last week unveiled six pledge card-style “first steps” towards the party’s five missions, described by a party spokesperson as “a distillation of Labour’s core retail offer” at the general election.

Research by More in Common, released today, found that, while more than six in ten respondents backed each of the pledges set out, 53% believed Labour would not deliver on all six within the next parliament.

The Guardian

8 May 2024

Starmer may be bland – but that passes the taste test in a country sick of spicy politics

In a recent survey by More in Common, a civil society organisation, voters were asked to describe the UK in a word. The top choices were “broken”, “mess”, “struggling”, “divided”, “expensive”, “poor” and “chaotic”.

Labour List

8 May 2024

Locals signal ‘Blair-style majority’ not hung parliament, new analysis finds

Luke Tryl, director of More in Common, dismissed suggestions that the country is heading for a hung parliament at the next general election, after another election expert said council results pointed to a closer race than polls suggest.

Tryl said at a briefing for journalists that while MiC’s best estimates put Labour’s lead closer than some polls that have put the party 25 points ahead, they still remain on course for a majority – on a similar scale to that of 1997.

Politics Home

8 May 2024

Labour's Growing Suburban Support And Tactical Voting Could Deliver "Double Whammy" Defeat To Tories

Luke Tryl, the UK Director of polling organisation More in Common, agreed that Labour's vote share had become more efficient, making analysis of the national vote share in this year's local elections somewhat less significant.

"Labour are doing much better at gaining votes in areas where they need to beat the Conservatives than they are in areas where they already hold the seat," he said.

"In some cases, we know in those areas where they held seats, they've actually lost votes. In Merseyside you don't see really significant gains, you see Labour going up a bit, whereas in Northamptonshire you see a much more significant switch to Labour. They are gaining votes where they need to and gaining fewer votes in areas that ultimately won't matter that much."

The Telegraph

6 May 2024

Why bosses are ‘getting nervous’ about the corporate diversity drive

Such issues are often cast as a battle between right and left even though polls show that few approach the topic through a hyper-political lens. The most common starting point is one of compassion, according to a previous poll by the More in Common think tank.

The Telegraph

3 May 2024

What does Reform UK stand for? Their history and vision under Richard Tice

Research from the More in Common think tank in February 2022 found that immigration was the main reason 2019 Tory voters were defecting to Reform, with around one in five of those who backed Boris Johnson and his party at the last election expected to support Mr Tice.