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The Telegraph

14 January 2023

The Telegraph

With the Tories reliant on both older voters and Red Wall constituencies for their parliamentary majority, the perceptions of the NHS aired by the group pose a serious electoral danger to Mr Sunak. Luke Tryl, the UK director of More in Common, who moderated the session, told The Telegraph: “For this group their worries about the NHS weren’t theoretical, they were personal.

“Every single one of the pensioners we spoke to had a story of how they, or people close to them had suffered at the hands of a system on the brink.”

The Guardian

13 January 2023

The Guardian

Luke Tryl, the director of the thinktank More in Common, which conducts frequent focus groups, confirmed that he and his colleagues had been hearing from a growing number of former Brexiters who had lost faith.

He described “the horror on people’s faces – and you can literally see it on people’s faces in focus groups – when you talk about going back to Brexit debates”, adding: “The big reason they don’t want to touch the ‘rejoin’ thing is that they think it would be four more years when that’s all we would talk about.”

The Times

9 January 2023

The Times

Luke Tryl, UK director of the More in Common think tank, suggests much of Harry and Meghan’s support comes from a far smaller subset of the population than simply remainers or the young: their fans are “progressive activists”. These people make up about an eighth of the population but have a disproportionately loud voice on social media, have high incomes but low accumulated wealth and mostly vote Labour.

The Telegraph

6 January 2023

The Telegraph

More in Common, an organisation that conducts focus groups across the country, has found voters are frustrated and underwhelmed by his start in Number 10. Luke Tryl, its UK director, warned that people in the North and Midlands who backed the Tories in their 2019 landslide “haven’t warmed” to the Prime Minister but said he has done better in winning back some of the more liberal Conservatives in the south who supported David Cameron.

Politics Home

12 December 2022

Politics Home

The poll, conducted by Public First on behalf of think-tank More In Common, and seen exclusively by PoliticsHome, found that 51 per cent of people surveyed believed the UK's support for Ukraine was deepening the cost of living crisis, but that it should continue regardless. Just 18 per cent believed the economic impact on the UK was significant enough to justify a scale-back on support for Ukraine, while a further 14 per cent said they did not believe the support was having any impact on the cost of living.

The Mirror

8 December 2022

The Mirror

According to the poll, conducted by Public First for More in Common, Britons now overwhelmingly rank the cost of living as the top issue facing the country today. The survey showed more than a third (35%) expect to go into debt this year - half of whom never normally go into the red. As the cost of living crisis hits hard, 44% are cutting back on Christmas presents, 34% are buying less festive food and 24% are scaling back on decorations.