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.

Rebecca Lowe

Related Posts & Publications

A Billion Bees A-Buzzing: Mandeville and Christmas

A Billion Bees A-Buzzing: Mandeville and Christmas

by | Dec 23, 2016

The overall economic benefit of Christmas seems as obvious yet elusive as that of the royal family. We know it must exist, and come up with endless ways to try to prove it. We look at ‘industry’ turnover from turkeys to tinsel, stacked against 25 December being the...
Symbolism and Reality in Geopolitics

Symbolism and Reality in Geopolitics

by | Nov 27, 2016

Tom Franklin made the finals of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for a photograph he’d taken the previous September of three Manhattan firemen. The image’s strength is not least its unintentional evocation of Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photo from the Battle of Iwo Jima. Both...
Theresa May’s Conference Speech

Theresa May’s Conference Speech

by | Oct 6, 2016

May promised to explain her vision for Britain. Did she? Yes. Was it a new answer? No. It’s been plastered all over Birmingham; it drove every minister’s comment. She wants a country — and an economy, government, party, and conference speech — that ‘works for...
One Nation in a Post-Referendum World

One Nation in a Post-Referendum World

by | Sep 25, 2016

Having referred to ‘One Nation’ 46 times in his speech at the 2012 Labour Party conference, Ed Miliband faced accusations of slogan appropriation and identity dysphoria. Increased use of the term may have risked it becoming an ambiguously virtuous sound bite, but it...