The Red Wall
Total 6 Posts
English local elections 2021: How to really read the results.
5 min read
Forget the media focus on Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer in this year’s local and regional elections, the reality is that each set of results came about through local issues and local campaigning.
Hartlepool by-election: Inside the new northern Conservatism.
5 min read
Another red wall seat falls to the party of government, leaving Labour out in the cold once more. The party may have to accept that many of its old seats are simply lost.
Hartlepool by-election: Red wall seat will be a key test for Keir Starmer’s leadership.
4 min read
Failing to hold the long-standing Labour seat of Hartlepool (in a region that delivered Boris Johnson a majority in 2019) would raise some serious questions about Keir Starmer’s strategy, credibility and electability.
British people have unusual views on inequality.
5 min read
Differences between regions has been a major political theme in recent years and it shows in the polling.
Is Labour using migrants as pawns?
3 min read
On why the Labour Party engages in anti-immigration rhetoric rather than talking sensibly about Covid-19 travel restrictions and confronts the government’s failures.
Ditch the people or policy? What historic trends suggest Labour needs to do next.
4 min read
The leadership insists the manifesto was not the problem in 2019 – but are they sure?