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Morning Star

15 August 2023

Morning Star

Many Afghan families have been let down by the promised warm welcome to Britain following the Taliban takeover, a report by the More In Common think tank added.

It said there had been failings in areas including the housing and accommodation, funding and integration of Afghans into local communities.

The report said: “Many refugees’ offers for housing and jobs fell through because local authorities were too slow to react and not agile enough in finding solutions to complex challenges.”

The Independent

15 August 2023

The Independent

Many Afghan families have been let down by the promised warm welcome to the UK, a think tank said as it called for lessons to be learned so future groups of refugees can be better supported.

More In Common, an organisation founded in the wake of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox, recognised the success of efforts to settle thousands of people into permanent accommodation after fleeing the Taliban takeover two years ago.

But, in a report published on Tuesday to coincide with the anniversary, it said there had been failings in areas including the housing and accommodation, funding and integration of Afghans into local communities.

Politico

14 August 2023

Politico

That Labour lead is still huge, notes Luke Tryl, a former Tory special adviser who oversees polling and focus groups for the non-partisan More in Common think tank. He says Labour would win a majority if there was an election tomorrow. But “we have a really volatile electorate — people are just much less entrenched than they were,” he adds. He believes Labour are currently “winning by default,” because “people don’t like the Tories.” 

El Confidencial

13 August 2023

El Confidencial

Tyron Surmon of More in Common , a think tank working on social cohesion, says that one of the things that perhaps makes the debate so complex " is that it doesn't map clearly along left-right lines. ". "It's not that pro-trans is equal to the left and anti-trans is equal to the right. Many of the people on the more critical side consider themselves to be progressives, such as JK Rowling , who became involved in the trans debate because of her concern about how it interacts with women's rights," he told this newspaper.

But Surmon also says that trans identity has been one of the key focuses of the group's reporting over the past year, and one of the main findings is that "it's not really something people care about . " "Almost no one singles out trans people as one of the biggest problems facing the country. When we talk to people in focus groups they almost never bring up trans issues without being asked, they are much more compassionate and restrained than the way in which it is presented in the media", he points out.

Huffington Post

12 August 2023

Huffington Post