Reports & Insights

Our reports explore what Britain could achieve with Labour in power.

How Labour Won

This is the first part of Labour Together’s review of the 2024 election, which looks at how Labour won.

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Building a New Britain

For too long, Britain has been caught in a doom loop. Low investment has caused low productivity, which has fed into stagnating growth and flat productivity. In this paper, we chart the long story of underinvestment, which is a regional as much as a national story, and its devastating impact on Britain. In its place, we argue for targeted public and private investment to reverse that, and, in so doing, build a new and better Britain.

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AI-pocalypse? No.

In November 2023, Rishi Sunak drew together tech industry executives to gaze into a crystal ball and pontificate about a future AI apocalypse. In this paper, Emily Middleton and Kirsty Innes explore what about technology the public actually fears and what gives them cause for hope.

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From Security Comes Hope

We live in an age of insecurity. War has returned to the European continent. Political upheaval has disrupted some of the most stable democracies in the world. A rising China is destabilising the old, America-centric global order. Britain has been uniquely exposed. Cutting hard and fast after the financial crisis, our economy has been starved of investment. Growth has flatlined. Our public services are crumbling. In this paper, we show that insecurity defines the lives of millions of Britons across the country - and what a future government could do to foster security and rebuild hope.

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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.

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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.

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A Peerless Democracy

In December 2022, Keir Starmer committed a future Labour government to replacing the House of Lords. In its place he promised “a new, smaller, democratically elected second chamber,” that will represent “the regions and nations of the United Kingdom.” In this report, we explore public attitudes to the House of Lords and the possible scope for reform.

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A New Business Model for Britain

In 'A New Business Model for Britain', Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves sets out ‘securonomics’, her vision for Britain's economy with Labour in power. She describes the weaknesses in the British economy, some dating back decades and others the result of thirteen years of austerity and chaos. She also shows what Labour would do differently. Drawing on the example set by centre-left governments across the world, particularly the "modern supply side economics" of the Biden Administration, she shows that Britain can rebuild its economic strength amidst the uncertainty of an "age of insecurity".

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Red Shift

This report charts Labour’s path to power. A little over three years ago, writing such a report would have been a laughable exercise. At that time, Labour had slumped to its worst defeat in 84 years. An electoral recovery looked, at the very least, like a two-term project. Now, the context is markedly different. Labour is consistently leading the polls. While the journey between poll leads and poll booths is long, a Labour victory now looks possible. This report explores how that victory might be realised and introduces the voter who will be essential to ensuring it happens: Stevenage Woman.

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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.

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Data tables for our polling work can be found in our archive here.