20 July 2023
Asked which party they trusted more to stop crossings, more than half the public (58 per cent) said “neither”, the More In Common survey shared exclusively with i showed.
Only around one in five trusted the Tories (22 per cent) or Labour (20 per cent) to get a handle on the crisis, despite the Prime Minister making “stop the boats” one of his key five pledges.
17 July 2023
Voters across Britain want Labour to increase penalties for polluting water companies and to toughen its stance on the environment, new research shared with i has shown.
A series of focus groups held by the More in Common think-tank and coalition group Unchecked UK suggested environmental issues will become a key battleground in the run-up to the general election amid widespread fury over sewage spills into Britain’s rivers.
16 July 2023
UK Director Luke Tryl discusses the state of public opinion regarding the three upcoming by-elections (from 32:00)
10 July 2023
Luke Tryl, UK director at the More in Common group, said Labour risked “throwing the baby out with the bath water” over climate issues. He said it “makes total sense” to condemn Just Stop Oil and Sadiq Khan’s expansion of London’s Ulez scheme.
“But if Labour strategists think climate isn’t a mainstream electoral issue, their assumptions about voters are a decade out of date,” Mr Tryl added.