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22 September 2024

‘I’m fuming’: ex-Labour voters’ anger at Starmer freebies row

In two focus groups organised by the More in Common think-tank this week, voters in Rochdale and Manchester were scathing about the Prime Minister and his wife, Victoria, receiving gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds.

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The Sunday Times

21 September 2024

Inside the week psychodrama returned to Downing Street

More in Common polling shows how the public mood has turned against Labour in their first few months in government, as the party heads into their annual conference.

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The Independent

21 September 2024

Reform voters are outliers who have ‘starkly’ different views about immigration than rest of the country

Jim Blagden of pollsters More in Common said Reform’s vote split into two camps - disillusioned populists and the radical right.

Most Reform voters are disillusioned populists, he said, a group that believes immigration brings more negatives than positives. “But they think that violence against refugees is never justified and that the recent riots are best described as racist thuggery,” he added.

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Huffington Post

20 September 2024

Is The Party Over Already? Keir Starmer Aims To Get Back On The Front Foot After Worst Week Yet

Any hope Labour have that the public will see “frockgate” as a Westminster bubble issue are forlorn, according to Luke Tryl of the More in Common think-tank.

“In the focus groups which we regularly hold with a variety of voters from all over the country, we hear consistent anger about these kinds of issues,” he said.

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New Statesman

20 September 2024

Reform is Labour’s problem now

Leading pollster argues that Keir Starmer needs to take Nigel Farage's party head on.

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The Spectator

20 September 2024

The freebie scandal could cost Keir Starmer

As the precipitous drop in Starmer’s approval ratings shows, the new government does not have much political capital to spare. It needs to take back the agenda and stop this freebie scandal from happening again. Failing to do so will not just be bad for the Labour party, but bad for the public’s faith in our political system itself.