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Will Pork Barrel Politics Keep the Conservatives in Power?
The pork barrel strategy will not sink the government, but its new politics of place will struggle to deliver on its promises.
- Conservative Party
- Trade
- Health, Education & Welfare
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Populism, Hegemony and Agency: Left Economics after Corbynism
Labour's election defeat in December 2019 provided the opportunity for a fundamental rethinking of economic and political strategy of a kind that failed to take place during Corbyn's era.
- Labour Party
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Walking the Dark Side: Evading Parliamentary Scrutiny
There is a dark side to parliamentary scrutiny: where the principles and practicalities of scrutiny are not aligned, and where willingness and capacity are constrained or non-existent.
- Political Parties
- Parliament
- Covid-19
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Corbynism and its Aftermath
Context caught up with the outlook of Jeremy Corbyn, rather than the other way around.
- Labour Party
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The Politics of Levelling-up
As a broad aspiration for the country, levelling-up will eventually crash into the hard-fiscal reality that not everywhere can be levelled-up.
- Conservative Party
- Equality
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Gender Politics after Corbynism
How initial prospects for the cultivation of a more gender-sensitive left politics in the early years of the Corbyn period were ultimately undermined.
- Feminism & Gender
- Labour Party
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The Pork Barrel Politics of the Towns Fund
On 27 July 2019 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced The Towns Fund, a £3.6 billion scheme designed to improve transport and communications infrastructure in English towns.
- Conservative Party
- Elections & Campaigning
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Looking for Starmerism
Assessing the evolution of Starmerism through his successful campaign to be leader of a divided party and his first year as leader of the opposition.
- Labour Party
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The Problems of Starmerism
Labour and Keir Starmer would do well not to throw over Corbynism in its entirety.
- Labour Party
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- Work & Trade Unions
- Labour Party
