23 September 2024
Labour already predicted to lose next election, bombshell poll reveals
More in Common's UK director Luke Tryl said: "It may seem extremely premature to be looking ahead to the next election just months after the last one, but with such a volatile electorate Labour needs to be thinking not just about how to hold on to its existing coalition, but how to grow that broad but shallow base of support if it is going to have any chance of holding onto power."
22 September 2024
‘I’m fuming’: ex-Labour voters’ anger at Starmer freebies row
In two focus groups organised by the More in Common think-tank this week, voters in Rochdale and Manchester were scathing about the Prime Minister and his wife, Victoria, receiving gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds.
21 September 2024
Inside the week psychodrama returned to Downing Street
More in Common polling shows how the public mood has turned against Labour in their first few months in government, as the party heads into their annual conference.
21 September 2024
Jim Blagden of pollsters More in Common said Reform’s vote split into two camps - disillusioned populists and the radical right.
Most Reform voters are disillusioned populists, he said, a group that believes immigration brings more negatives than positives. “But they think that violence against refugees is never justified and that the recent riots are best described as racist thuggery,” he added.
20 September 2024
Any hope Labour have that the public will see “frockgate” as a Westminster bubble issue are forlorn, according to Luke Tryl of the More in Common think-tank.
“In the focus groups which we regularly hold with a variety of voters from all over the country, we hear consistent anger about these kinds of issues,” he said.
20 September 2024
Reform is Labour’s problem now
Leading pollster argues that Keir Starmer needs to take Nigel Farage's party head on.