22 January 2024
Voters no longer see Rishi Sunak as an asset to the Conservatives, polling has shown.
A survey by the More in Common think tank published on Sunday night showed 26 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement that the Prime Minister was an “asset” to his party, while 43 per cent disagreed.
When asked the same question in October, 37 per cent of people said Mr Sunak was an asset to the Conservatives and 33 per cent said he was not.
15 January 2024
Glass-half-full Tories might note that their party is attracting a plurality of transfers from Reform supporters but nowhere near all or even half of them. The More in Common think tank has found a similar rate of transfer to the Tories from Reform supporters but 40 per cent said they would stop voting altogether.
13 January 2024
Luke Tryl, UK director of More in Common, said in normal times the Tories scraping by in Wellingborough would signal “something deeply worrying and wrong” for the party.
But after a series of historic by-election defeats for the party last year, Mr Tryl said Labour would be disappointed with anything other than a win.
12 January 2024
Op-ed from UK Director Luke Tryl "The rightwing populist party could play an outsize role in the next UK election – and cost the Conservatives dearly"
30 December 2023
Op-ed from UK Director Luke Tryl: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’: how the Tories could still pull off a surprise win in 2024. All may look lost for Rishi Sunak. But if the cost of living crisis abates, he is still in with a chance
22 December 2023
Luke Tryl: A warning to CCHQ – real voters are turned off by terminally-online political messaging