Parties & Elections
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Labour’s Factionalism and a Reappraisal of Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm’s case for a more pluralistic, dynamic and intellectually inquiring Labour party is particularly relevant given the recent election of Keir Starmer.
- Progressive Politics
- Labour Party
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- Elections & Campaigning
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Four Recommendations to Improve Digital Electoral Oversight in the UK
The laws, regulations and practices around managing elections are therefore unfit for purpose in an era of fast-paced evolutions in digital campaigning.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Trade
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A Mountain to Climb: Labour Together's 2019 Election Review
No one can accuse this review of not taking the scale of Labour's 2019 defeat seriously. It rarely, however, takes sides—preferring to admonish all involved.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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Why Did Labour's Grassroots Switch From Jeremy Corbyn to Keir Starmer?
The scale of Keir Starmer’s victory in the Labour leadership election suggests a significant shift in opinion has taken place among the party’s grassroots members.
- Voting systems
- Labour Party
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Has Labour Really Lost the Working Class?
In the aftermath of Labour’s general election defeat, a new conventional wisdom has rapidly taken hold: Labour, increasingly middle class and out of touch, has been abandoned by its traditional working class base.
- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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Lisa Nandy Says Social Conservatism is a Labour Tradition. She's Wrong
Of all the candidates vying for the party leadership, Lisa Nandy appears to have put the most thought into why Labour was so badly beaten in the general election.
- Political Parties
- Devolution
- Labour Party
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The Worst British Prime Minister Ever?
Step forward, David Cameron.
- Conservative Party
- Brexit
- Equality
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Antisemitism – the Touchstone Issue for the Next Labour leader
Antisemitism has become one of the campaign’s defining issues, as it was in the 2019 general election.
- Racism & Antisemitism
- Labour Party
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The Labour Leadership Election: Getting it Together
On closer investigation the disagreement between left and right is less about policy, and more about entitlement.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
