14 October 2022
Almost 30,000 Ukrainian refugees have been in the UK for almost six months, analysis by BBC News shows. It means nearly a third of the total arrivals under the Homes for Ukraine scheme are facing the end of their initial hosting arrangements. So what happens to them now?
13 October 2022
Op-ed by More in Common UK Director Luke Tryl.
Defeating Putin will mean doing more to help Ukraine on the frontline, supplying, and persuading others to send more military equipment to help Zelensky’s army to defeat the Russians. It will mean doing more on the Home Front too to support those who need sanctuary in our country while the war continues, through bolstering the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
13 October 2022
The Government has been urged to “be part of the solution, not further trauma” for Ukrainian refugees by ensuring they can find housing when they come to move on from sponsored placements. Concern is growing that the Homes for Ukraine scheme is being “quietly phased out”, groups have said.
13 October 2022
More than 30 organisations have written to the Prime Minister seeking public assurances that the scheme will continue to receive Government backing and financial support. The groups – including More in Common, the Refugee Council and the Sanctuary Foundation – are calling for an extra winter payment to recognise hosts’ generosity during the cost-of-living crisis.
10 October 2022
Party conferences are always slightly surreal — politicos, lobbyists and journalists crammed together living off a diet of warm white wine and beige snacks. But rarely have I felt a contrast more jarring than between the halls of the Birmingham International Convention Centre and pitchside at Swindon FC, where we spoke with voters the day after the Conservative Party conference had finished.
7 October 2022
And it's been a hectic few weeks at the major party conferences, but what do the voters really think of the state of politics? Lewis went to a focus group in Swindon to ask what they make of Liz Truss and her opposite number Keir Starmer. Polly Billington, former Special Advisor to Ed Miliband, and Luke Tryl, former special advisor to ex-Conservative minister Nicky Morgan, and current director of public opinion research agency More in Common are with him to dissect the results.