Mayoral Matters: Public Attitudes to Mayors and Devolution in 2024
For the first time, LT has conducted public opinion polling in the twelve current mayoral areas and the two future ones with elections in 2025. We wanted to understand how those who actually experienced devolution felt about it.
Making the political case for an industrial strategy
Stability has been central to all calls for an industrial strategy. Academics, businesses, and policy-makers have made their case for an industrial strategy. In an increasingly competitive global market, they want certainty to invest and a coherent approach to economic policy-making.
Britain: A nation of MIMBYs
Drawing on a multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) of 12,000 people commissioned by Labour Together from YouGov, our analysis of public attitudes reveals that the caucus against housebuilding are smaller than anticipated. In this note, we set out what that means for Labour.
General Election Review 2024
Labour Together’s review of the 2024 election, which looks at how Labour won.
Starmerism is not at war with Blairism
A focus on serving working people is the golden thread that connects Keir Starmer’s Labour and Tony Blair’s, says Labour Together’s Director, Josh Simons.
Culture Clash
While we don’t yet have culture wars, we do have culture clashes. This paper argues that there is still time to bridge our divides, and shows how we can do so. Its author, Sunder Katwala, is the Director of British Future and the leading authority on questions of culture and identity in Britain today. Together with British Future, we publish it at a critical moment, as Westminster returns to work and gears up for an election that will place culture and identity centre stage.
What Women Want
In advanced democracies across the world, the last forty years have seen women move left, shifting their support from conservative to progressive parties. One country, however, proved an exception. In almost every post-war election, Britain’s Conservative Party won more of its support from women than men, and Labour won more votes from men than women. Now, that has reversed. In this paper, Professor Rosie Campbell and Christabel Cooper explore what has changed and why.
General Election Review 2019
In 2020, Labour Together conducted a review into Labour's worst electoral defeat since 1935. That report diagnosed the causes of Labour's defeat, and set out how Labour could win back the trust of the British people, laying the groundwork for Labour's subsequent recovery.