4 February 2024
These views may seem quite extreme, as the pandemic hardly was a pleasant time for Britain and the world, but they are anything but. Adam and Ali were taking part in a focus group organised by the think tank More In Common, as a follow-up to a jaw-dropping poll they released in December. Asked whether they were happier in lockdown or today, just over a quarter of people – 26% – chose the former, and 58% the latter.
2 February 2024
Luke Tryl of the More in Common think tank, which regularly tests public opinion through polling and focus groups, told HuffPost UK: “What has cut through with the public is the vacillation on the £28bn policy.
“People say Labour can’t seem to make their minds up - we heard it multiple times last week. No one is worried about the cost of it or the policy itself, they just want Labour to make their minds up about it.”
28 January 2024
Write-up by Laura Kuenssberg, of 6 focus groups conducted by More in Common, featured on her programme 'Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg'
22 January 2024
Voters no longer see Rishi Sunak as an asset to the Conservatives, polling has shown.
A survey by the More in Common think tank published on Sunday night showed 26 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement that the Prime Minister was an “asset” to his party, while 43 per cent disagreed.
When asked the same question in October, 37 per cent of people said Mr Sunak was an asset to the Conservatives and 33 per cent said he was not.
15 January 2024
Glass-half-full Tories might note that their party is attracting a plurality of transfers from Reform supporters but nowhere near all or even half of them. The More in Common think tank has found a similar rate of transfer to the Tories from Reform supporters but 40 per cent said they would stop voting altogether.
13 January 2024
Luke Tryl, UK director of More in Common, said in normal times the Tories scraping by in Wellingborough would signal “something deeply worrying and wrong” for the party.
But after a series of historic by-election defeats for the party last year, Mr Tryl said Labour would be disappointed with anything other than a win.