Warwick Lightfoot responds to the Labour Party Manifesto
Labour’s manifesto has an ambitious objective: to ‘rewrite the rules of a rigged system, so that our economy really works for the many, and not only the few’. It is expressly collectivist, claiming ‘Labour understands that the creation of wealth is a collective...
Why Jeremy Corbyn is not part of the Clement Attlee internationalist tradition within Labour
Read Article A shorter version of this article appeared on Capx. A noble tradition of liberal internationalism has pumped blood to the heart of the Labour Party since its foundation and is an essential part of the Labour story. As a biographer of Clement Attlee, I can...
No longer overlooked but still decisive: has Theresa May conquered class politics for the Tories?
Read Article This article was featured on Conservative Home Class has long been the unscaled peak of post 2001 Conservative modernisation. It seemed harder to surmount than gender, race and sexuality – the themes which dominated the early phases of Tory modernisation....
France: The First Round
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...
