30 June 2023
STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GET OFF: Amid the crisis in mortgage rises and inflation, one participant in the latest More in Common focus group said it feels as though “you don’t get any relief from life.” PolHome has a writeup. The same site has a comment piece from More in Common U.K. Director Luke Tryl.
29 June 2023
“The big problem with it for the government is people aren’t going to get into the details. It’s just another thing that has gone wrong,” said Luke Tryl, a former Conservative government adviser who is now director of the More In Common think tank. “Most damningly, people aren’t going to be surprised because they’ve come to expect big parts of service provision will go wrong.”
29 June 2023
Op-ed by UK Director Luke Tryl:
It is sometimes easy to look at the latest round of grim economic statistics, be it interest rate hikes or stubbornly high inflation with a degree of detachment as just the latest data-points to highlight how badly 2020s Britain has lost its way. But put those statistics into context, by talking to people about the impact on their everyday lives, and the real toll of the past few years becomes clear. Our focus group in Milton Keynes last night was a sobering case in point.
28 June 2023
In truth, this looks like more of the same. Luke Tryl, director of the research group More in Common, argues: “The Tories are struggling on loss aversion because people don’t think they would lose very much if they fell.” But despite Labour’s poll lead, many contrast the lukewarm support for Starmer with the enthusiasm for Tony Blair in 1997. The shortfall is where the hope should be.
27 June 2023
Just a third of voters believe the Government’s handling of the Covid pandemic was a success, new polling has revealed. Nearly half of people – 48 per cent – have branded the UK’s response a failure, while 19 per cent said they did not know.
The figures for the More in Common think-tank suggest people’s perceptions of the government response have been clouded over the past few years – coming as the Covid inquiry continues to raise concerns over the lack of planning for the pandemic, and in the aftermath of the Privileges Committee report into Boris Johnson and “Partygate“.