A selection of our recent appearances in the UK media.
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.’
The New Statesman
30 July 2025
One year on, tensions still circle Britain’s asylum-seeker hotels
Deprivation and social dislocation, not levels of immigration, were the most common factors in riot-hit areas last summer, according to a report shared exclusively with the New Statesman that has been read in No 10. “This Place Matters”, by Citizens UK, UCL Policy Lab, and More in Common, finds no consistent correlation between high immigration to an area and low social cohesion.
Rather, integration is what counts. The constituencies that experienced unrest all have populations where more people feel “disconnected” than “connected”. While financial insecurity is one of the strongest predictors of disconnection, the report identifies other alienating trends: neglected high streets and town centres, the decline of in-person socialising, and a loss of “associational life” – fewer communal spaces where people interact, remote working and even self-checkouts.
The Sunday Times
26 July 2025
What Britons think about Israel, boats and our ‘chaotic’ world
Britons see the world in 2025 as “chaotic” and “dangerous” as global conflict reaches the highest level since the end of the Second World War, a poll shows.
They believe the UK’s power is diminishing while countries such as China and Russia — and the United States — are growing in stature and might, the study of more than 2,000 people by More in Common, the think tank, found. The pollster also carried out a focus group in Plymouth.
The Sun
26 July 2025
BRITAIN is heading for a five-party “Rainbow Coalition” for the first time in its history if there is a small shift in the polls, experts have warned.
Pollsters More in Common recently carried out a massive survey predicting how people may vote at the next election, seat by seat. It predicted a coalition government is on the cards in 2029.
The Economist
23 July 2025
The peril of trying to please people
Compromise has already damaged Sir Keir’s government. An unpopular scheme to remove an (up to) £300 winter-fuel allowance from pensioners has been partly reversed. Now pensioners who earn less than £35,000 a year, which is about three-quarters of them, will receive it. A cost-saving measure will save almost no costs, as a compromise. Before the decision Labour could count on the support of about 13% of pensioners. After the decision, it is about 15%. Once focus groups complained about the elderly losing £300 a year, points out Luke Tryl, from More In Common, a pollster; increasingly, they grumble about u-turns.