Parties & Elections
-
The Labour Party Under Keir Starmer: ‘Thanks, But no “isms” Please!’
Starmer's reluctance to reveal his agenda is deliberate and is part of a strategy of ‘ideological quietism’.
- Labour Party
-
‘A Mood in the Air … Like 1945’: Democratic Socialism and the Post-Corbyn Labour Party
An overriding preoccupation with distancing Labour from Corbynism risks paralysing it from responding to its fast-changing context.
- Labour Party
-
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
-
- Elections & Campaigning
-
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
-
‘Get Brexit Done’: The New Political Divides of England and Wales at the 2019 Election
This article analyses the successful Conservative election campaign of 2019 and how it took advantage of a fractured political and economic landscape.
- Conservative Party
- Brexit
- Labour Party
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Brexit, the 2019 General Election and the Realignment of British Politics
What was the impact of Brexit on the 2019 general election result? The outcome of the 2019 general election delivered a decisive electoral verdict for the first time in years following a period where British politics had been characterised by instability.
- Conservative Party
- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
