31 July 2021
Luke Tryl, UK Director, More in Common says "leaders need to play less to their base, move past the politics of “us-versus-them” and instead focus on helping the country to embrace change in ways that are nuanced, confident and true to who we are and the country we want to be."
We can end the Culture Wars by following the example of gay rights
27 July 2021
Luke Tryl, UK Director: "What is striking about the steady march towards gay equality is that it was done in a very British way - through dialogue and creating the space for people to ask questions. In dousing the flames of the culture wars, our leaders would do well to look to the push for gay equality and to learn from it how to better live up to the public’s expectations about navigating cultural change in Britain today."
27 July 2021
UK Director Luke Tryl spoke to LBC's Iain Dale about the launch of a new report from More in Common, Dousing the Flames: How leaders can better navigate cultural change in 2020s Britain.
'Almost every single Briton we spoke to said cultural change was something they welcomed, but politicians and campaigners were actually making it harder by how they were approaching these issues....there's actually a very British way of doing change that means not tearing things down or enflaming things, but actually building on the past"
25 July 2021
Luke Tryl, UK director of More in Common, said “In our conversations with Britons from across the country, they spoke passionately about the need to do more to tackle racism both on and offline and there was strong support for the message Black Lives Matter. That doesn’t make Briton’s Marxists or mean that they support all of BLM’s tactics."
Britons are more likely to view Black Lives Matter as a force for good than ill
22 July 2021
Luke Tryl, UK director of the think tank More in Common, sees Britain as “more like a kaleidoscope than two distinct sides”. Tryl says that most people are exhausted by division in this country and want to find “better ways to come together”.
14 July 2021
Luke Tryl, UK Director, More in Common says "Red wall seat voters – and the whole country – desperately want to see results not rhetoric. Three years of a Government led ‘war on woke’ would be either a sign of recklessness or failure".
07 April 2021
According to research from More in Common 'British people are a lot less polarized than the British media might like to say'.
'The UK has a stronger sense of community... 64% agree that the pandemic has shown most people in the country care about each other.'
28 March 2021
"If America has a chasm, we have a kaleidoscope. Last year More in Common published a report, Britain’s Choice, which identified not two opposing groups — Labour or Tory; Leave or Remain — but seven types of British citizen, who form shifting alliances".
23 February 2021
'Pursuing a ‘war on woke’ is bad leadership. Britain’s choice is not between a flag-waving jingoism or throwing its history into the river, and political leaders fail us when they frame debates in those terms.'
29 January 2021
"The really striking think about much of the culture wars issues is that they frankly don't engage that many people....Politics needs to provide us a way forward that isn't always about trying to create false debate or false division"