
Rebecca Lowe
Fellow, State & Society and Judicial Power Project; Convenor of Research Group on Political Thought 2016–17
rebecca.lowe@policyexchange.org.uk
Rebecca was the Fellow, State & Society and Judicial Power Project; Convenor of Research Group on Political Thought; and Editor of the weekly Policy Exchange Agenda. She is part of ConservativeHome’s editorial team, where she writes a fortnightly column, and she has written for various other mostly online publications, including Prospect Magazine, The Spectator, the Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek Europe. She studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Birkbeck, University of London, and has worked for various political research organisations, and as a parliamentary researcher. In the 2015 general election, she was a parliamentary candidate for City of Durham, where she gained the sixth biggest increase in the Conservative vote, nationally. Her research interests lie in the intersection between policy, practical politics, and political theory.

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France: The First Round
by Rebecca Lowe | Apr 25, 2017
Pollsters proved so successful at predicting the result of Sunday’s French presidential first round that it would be easy to overlook its many unsettling significances. That the Front National’s (FN) Marie Le Pen has reached the final of the contest represents change...
A Four-Way Marginal?
by Rebecca Lowe | Apr 18, 2017
Entering the final week before the first round of the French presidential contest, focus is firmly on the recent bunching of the candidates in the polls — to the extent that the race is now being fairly described as a ‘four-way marginal’. The far-left candidate,...
The Rise of Emmanuel Macron
by Rebecca Lowe | Apr 3, 2017
News last week that former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was backing Presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron is but the latest windfall for the man increasingly likely to become France’s next leader. Criticisms of Macron’s youth and inexperience are countered by...
In and Out: White Papers Past and Present
by Rebecca Lowe | Feb 5, 2017
Like so much of the Brexit process, the publication of last week’s white paper, The United Kingdom’s exit from and new partnership with the European Union, marks a historic moment. It seems relevant, therefore, to compare that paper with a similarly momentous, yet...Support Us
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