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The Independent

19 June 2024

Could Labour’s ‘left-wing cull’ come back to haunt the party at the general election?

“In terms of the calculated decision Starmer has made, looked at purely from electoral logic, it makes sense,” says Luke Tryl, Executive Director of the More in Common research group.

“If Starmer was going to win back those voters Labour lost, particularly in places like the red wall, he was going to have to convince them that he had changed the Labour party and that it was different to what had come before under Corbyn.”

Huffington Post

19 June 2024

Tories On Course For Wipeout As New Opinion Polls Predict Huge Labour Majorities

The YouGov, Savanta and More in Common polls were released after a cabinet minister became the first to concede that Labour is heading for a “large majority”.

All three were carried out using the so-called “MRP” method, which surveys more people than normal and gives a seat-by-seat prediction to supposedly try to come up with a more accurate forecast.

LBC

18 June 2024

Rishi Sunak accuses Keir Starmer of only wanting to lower voting age to 'entrench his power'

Mr Sunak's comments come after a poll by More in Common found that the public thinks Labour only wants to make the change for its own electoral self-interest.

Huffington Post

16 June 2024

'Admission Of Defeat': Laura Kuenssberg Calls Out 'Desperate' Tory Campaign Tactics

According to research from consultancy firm More in Common, about 15% of voters are still undecided.

Kuenssberg hit back: “Isn’t that exactly the point?

“There are still millions of people in this country, probably many of them watching this morning, who haven’t decided what they’re going to do yet, and they’re hearing from you, is not ‘hey here’s our positive vision’.

The Telegraph

15 June 2024

Voters find Starmer’s Labour more patriotic than Tories

Voters think that Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is more proud to be British than the Conservatives under Rishi Sunak, polling has found ahead of the general election.

Mr Sunak was scored second lowest in a list of politicians when it came to perceptions about patriotism, with only Jeremy Corbyn viewed as less patriotic than the Prime Minister.

The research by the UCL Policy Lab and the More in Common think tank also found that the public think that politicians are less patriotic today than they used to be.

The Standard

14 June 2024

If you knew Keir Starmer's father was a toolmaker, this newsletter is for you

A poll for More in Common finds that just 27 per cent of respondents know what Starmer's father did for a living. If that doesn't sound like much, it's actually up from 11 per cent in April.