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if Labour strategists think climate isn’t a mainstream electoral issue, their assumptions about voters are a decade out of date,” Mr Tryl added.
10 July 2023
UK Director Luke Tryl discusses More in Common's focus groups in the 3 seats of the upcoming by-election
9 July 2023
Tryl, who acted as the moderator, said: “These were by far the worst set of groups we’ve done on impressions of Rishi Sunak. Whereas previously people have been willing to give him some benefit of the doubt, and usually fell back on the fact that even if he’s out of touch he’s competent and the best person to clear up the mess from Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, things have shifted. The cost of living crisis being compounded with the mortgage crisis has exacerbated Sunak’s personal weaknesses.”