Reform’s lead drops slightly to 7 this week. While the Greens drop to 9% - their lowest this year.
➡️ REF UK 29 (-1)
🌹 LAB 22% (+2)
🌳 CON 21% (+1)
🔶 LIB DEM 13% (+1)
🌍 GREEN 9% (-2)
🟡 SNP 2% (-1)
N = 2,097 | Fieldwork 12-15:6 | Changes w/ 10/6
On leader net approval Badenoch hits a personal high at -1, almost breaking even, Davey is at -9, Farage at -14, Polanski -25 and Starmer is at the bottom of the list on -48.
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In fact, far from finding the comparisons with smoking hyperbolic, 62% of Brits think that the level of social media use is as bad as smoking.
Crucially, this isn’t just moral panic by older generations, in focus groups most young people think it is a negative but don’t see a way they can get off it and still have a social life because all their friends use it.
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Meanwhile, half of Gen Z Britons say that they regret how much time they spent on social media growing up.
Most people in focus groups aren’t naive, they recognise that some young people will get round it, but like drinking rules don’t stop all under age drinking there is hope it will help limit and crucially give parents the powers to enforce and introduce more frictions to scrolling.
Under 16s social media ban commands significant support from the public. From all of our conversations it’s seen as an area where people think individual parents can’t act alone and an area where they need government to help them take back control.
Nine in ten say that social media use among young people is harmful. Including nearly 8 in 10 of Gen Z. Parents cite it as the thing most likely to negatively impact their children’s mental health.
More in Common's Luke Tryl joins the podcast from Makerfield to discuss how this peculiar by-election is shaping how voters are thinking.
