A selection of our recent appearances in the UK media.
BBC News
30 August 2025
I asked a bus passenger to turn his phone down - he called me miserable
When Rachel asks the passenger to turn his phone down because it's distracting her, he calls her "the most miserable bus driver I have come across in my entire life" and gets off the bus in a huff.
In an August survey of 2,015 Britons, by the research and consultancy non-profit More In Common, 93% said they didn't think it was acceptable to play music out loud on a train.
The Mirror
28 August 2025
Politicians given warning from voters over Lucy Connolly after vile asylum tweet
A More in Common poll found fewer than one in five people (18%) think politicians should cosy up to Lucy Connolly, while more than half (51%) think they should keep their distance
The Daily Mail
28 August 2025
Three in five Brits want to see more Union Jack or St George's Cross flags being flown in public spaces across the country, a new poll has revealed.
The survey by More In Common found 58 per cent of Brits think there should be more UK or English flags on display on street furniture such as lampposts and roundabouts.
This compared to 42 per cent who don't think there should be more flags on display.
What's Left?
28 August 2025
How to Win the Next UK Election - Luke Tryl
In this discussion we delved into More in Common’s latest report, ‘Shattered Britain’, and its segmentation of the electorate which identified 7 types of voter. In particular, we zoomed in on the growing anti-system sentiment across the UK and Labour’s challenge in being seen as defenders of a rotten orthodoxy.
BBC News
18 August 2025
The Green Party is at a crossroads. Is it time they get angry?
The Green Party is on the brink of choosing its new leader. It usually does it once every two years and the contest can go fairly unnoticed.
Not this year.
Polanski, a former actor who is the party's deputy leader, has turbo-charged the race, the result of which will be announced on 2 September. He calls his approach "eco-populism" and says it's about being "bolder" and more clearly anti-elite in communicating social and economic issues, as well as environmental ones.
Getting noticed is often a struggle for smaller political parties. For that reason, Luke Tryl, who is UK director of the political research organisation More in Common, believes that Polanski's approach might be the Greens' quickest route to boosting its numbers. "If you are trying to get 10 to 15%, it's probably what gets you noticed." But he argues it would net the party far fewer seats than the 40 that Polanski believes he can win.
The Spectator
9 August 2025
Motherland: how Farage is winning over women
Polling from More in Common shows that, since the general election, Reform has gained 14 percentage points among women, while Labour has lost 12, but with every cohort over the age of 45 the swing is even bigger. It is most pronounced in the Generation X group, aged 45 to 60, where Reform tops the polls. They also lead among Boomer women, aged 61 to 75. Among the over-75s, where the Tories still win, more women support Reform than the Lib Dems, Labour and the Greens combined.
Farage’s party also wins the support of one in five women in the younger age groups, putting them second to Labour on 22 per cent among millennials aged 29 to 44 and on 19 per cent among the 18- to 28-year-olds of Generation Z (just four points behind Labour). Luke Tryl of More in Common says: ‘Among all other age groups, women have been moving towards Reform more than any other party.’