In this episode, I sat down with Michela Morizzo, CEO and founder of Techne UK and Techne Italia, a leading data science company conducting large-scale opinion polling and helping businesses, policymakers, and organizations better understand voter behavior and future political trends.

Michela has spent the past 25 years analyzing key political trends. From predicting Brexit and the rise of the far right to understanding the development of the UK’s increasingly multi-party political environment, Michela explains what is driving voter behavior today. What are the key signals policymakers need to identify early? And what can future policymakers learn from the political environment in 2026?

Michela believes that voter abstention creates space for the emergence of new political parties. Trust, happiness, and the economy all play a cruc ...