Lover of finding out what people think, UK Director @Moreincommon_ 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

London, England
Joined December 2016
Margin of error changes this week and a very close battle on the right. Labour holds a 5pt lead over the Conservatives 🌹 LAB 28% (-)
🌳 CON 23% (-1)
⏩ REF 22% (+1)
🔶 LIB DEM 10% (-1)
🟢 GREEN 8% (+1)
⚫ RES: 5% (-)
 N = 3,069 | Fieldwork 16-19/10 | Changes w 12/10
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How is Andy Burnham doing as prime minister as he enters his 100th day in office? Executive Director of More in Common UK @LukeTryl breaks down the latest polling on his popularity ⬇️
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🧵Ahead of the Budget, our research with @electrifygb finds bringing down energy bills is the public's top priority for the budget: picked by 58% of Britons, ahead of public services (33%) & tax cuts (32%). It is number one for Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and Reform voters alike.
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A risk to any Government interventions comes from the ‘squeezed middle’ Brits tend to prefer universal support over targeted. From focus groups, it’s clear there is a real risk that if support misses those who work and also aren’t elligible for benefits it will increase the growing frustration no one seems to have their back.
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Measure which are seen to offer at least some help across the board, even if the bulk of targeting is at the poorest, are likely to command greater support. There is a real risk among those just ineligible for support that it feeds a narrative we hear a lot the super rich are looked after, benefit claimants are but they are not.
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🟢 I've written this week's @NewStatesman Politics Column on the Greens' pledge to 'replace Labour' which, though fitting for the moment, was clearly unsustainable. The problem with this promise might not have been its ambition, but the assumption that the Greens were ready to fulfil it. Events over the past three weeks - the fall out from the Zionism is Racism motion and the Holborn and St Pancras by-election - could all be seen as evidence of that. And now, exclusive polling by @Moreincommon_ and shared with the NS shows Polanski's personal approval his personal net approval rating has hit a low of -35 per cent and one in four people now think the party has a serious anti-Semitism problem. Some polls have the Greens on 7 per cent, lower than before Polanski was elected. So, where does the party go next? With Andy Burnham as prime minister, Polanski & the Greens' strategy can no longer be exclusively about criticising an unpopular Labour government - it will need to be about convincing voters they are a realistic alternative. There are figures within the party who are beginning to do this thinking. As several sources told me, for the first time Green factions are likely to form. Read more online & in this week's magazine:
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Obvs lots of drivers of this including cost of living. But working from home clearly a driver by removing the friction that gets you out of the house to begin with & instead having easy access to on demand entertainment. Result much smaller life bubbles. xitter.cf/jameslynch32/status/21…
Wow, Friday night has become just another weeknight in terms of socialization.
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Think this argument about downside of WfH is very distinct from the tedious 'people are just lazy at home' which doesn't seem to be borne out. But that doesn't mean that there aren't very wider real costs, that are less noticeable than the immediate benefit.
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And obviously it does seem WfH has real benefits for those with caring responsibilities. Though we know less about wider impact on if certain groups are more likely to WfH and others WfO if that has an impact on reinforcing inequities, and extent to which flexibility might be better answer.
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Burnham still leads on gross approval at 40%. Badenoch’s gross approval is now at 34%, followed by Farage at 25%, Davey at 18%, Lowe at 15% and Polanski at 14%. Ahead of the budget few have opinions on John Healey- 14% think he is doing a good job, but 33% do not know.
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Looking at preferred Prime Minister Burnham’s score is down a notch but still a big lead, with 30% saying he makes the best Prime Minister. 25% think ‘none of them’, compared to 16% for Badenoch, 15% for Farage, 5% for Lowe and Polanski, and 4% for Davey.
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Very much matches what we hear in focus groups with young people, this sense of feeling numb both by how hard it is to get a job and dispiriting applications, but also feelings of precarity in jobs.
"It makes you question the effort you put in." After applying to more than 115 jobs, graduate Anna describes her experiences of the "demoralising" job market and frustration of being left in a "void of no feedback". #Newsnight
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