12 May 2023
But people are not clamouring to rejoin. “There is growing Bregret, but little appetite for Brejoin,” said Luke Tryl, director of More in Common.
“Brexit is far from the top-of-mind issue it was three years ago. It is rarely raised spontaneously in focus groups. Most people would rather it went away.” That voters are much more worried about the cost of living and the NHS than Brexit is good news for Labour.
11 May 2023
That’s because there’s not a lot to cheer about, according to Luke Tryl - the UK director of More in Common, an independent think tank which regularly polls the public that was set up following the murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox.
“Whenever we do focus groups or polling, the dominant mood is exhaustion”, Tryl told me. “Far from rebuilding the 2019 coalition uniting voters in the Red and Blue Walls - largely against Jeremy Corbyn and getting Brexit done - both sides appear to be moving away from the Tories”.
11 May 2023
Data collected by More in Common suggests most Britons have a “live-and-let-live approach”, in which they would reject US-style bans on drag and believe trans women are women, and trans men are men.
8 May 2023
A survey by the More In Common think tank, carried out between April 6 to 11, found that 46 per cent of people still support the Rwanda scheme. This compared to 28 per cent who oppose it and 27 per cent who said they were apathetic or had not made up their mind.
It also showed almost half (48 per cent) believed the policy would not make a difference to the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats. A further 3 per cent said it would lead to more migrants entering the UK illegally. This compared to only a third (34 per cent) who thought the Rwanda scheme would reduce the number of Channel migrant crossings, while 14 per cent said they did not know whether the plan would work.
7 May 2023
Curiously, David Cameron-supporting Tories in the blue wall — whom Luke Tryl, UK director of the More In Common think tank has termed “established liberals” — think housing is a more important issue facing the country than does any group, even the young. “They’re worried about their kids getting housing — or their grandkids — and are hearing about how bad their children’s landlords are,” he says.
5 May 2023
Cathy Newman with Times Radio Drive: Coronation Special
More in Common UK Director Luke Tryl discussed the local election results (from 23:30)