Comms and other stuff @UCLPolicyLab. He/Him.
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From our post speech event with @UCLPolicyLab yesterday, word cloud of the contents of Burnham speech. Said yesterday it could have been framed as a social democrat version of Take Back Control, and both words featured a lot, if not together!
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NEW - In new MRP polling of more than 10,000 voters – seen by the Guardian – Burnham has received a bounce of six points in voting intention compared with mid-June, taking Labour to 26%, ahead of Reform on 23%. The poll puts Labour ahead on seats,
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🧵In the Sunday Times. @lara_spirit covers our deep dive with @UCLPolicyLab into what people want from Burnham's premiership. We find the new PM is likely to have a limited honeymoon, that public desire for radical change has grown since July 24 and cost of living is the key test
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Bellingham’s reaction to Kane’s goal is killing me 😭 xitter.gq/ishowmovie5/status/207…
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Un documento para la historia. #VisitaPapaRTVE
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Kerry's been Labour all her life. Leafleting as a child, campaigning in by-elections, standing as a 2024 parliamentary candidate.
She knows Labour's at its best when it's broad, open & confident in its values.
Nominate Kerry as Mainstream NEC candidate at your next CLP meeting.
ALT Graphic encouraging Labour members to nominate Mainstream's Kerry Postlewhite for NEC candidate at their next CLP meeting. With caption: ""This year, vote to reconnect Labour with its mainstream."" Kerry Postlewhite, L1212372
James Baggaley retweeted
Just finished a three-hour discussion with 50-60 undecided voters covering everything from cost-of-living and immigration to Wigan Roller Rink!
People are really engaged in this by-election and it is brilliant to see.
Thanks for coming along, everyone. 🙏🏻
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After six hours on the doorstep in Orrell, what better than a bit of football therapy at @ashtontownfc! 💪🏻
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Government has show it is acting urgently and without fear or favour to get answers/justice following murder of Henry Nowak and actions of police. Important in its own right, but failure to do so risks further loss of confidence public anger & wider consequences for cohesion.
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"To me it's unfathomable"
Former police officer and Labour MP, Jonathan Hinder, criticises the actions of police in the murder of Henry Nowak by Vickrum Digwa: "the use of handcuffs is just impossible to explain".
#Newsnight
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Blair’s essay is a substantial intervention on what's wrong with Britain & with Labour, with a detailed alternative agenda. Dismissing it is silly. But engaging with it reveals that it's both forward-looking & stuck in the past, with an agenda that is radical but not 'centrist'🧵
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Really interesting piece. I love the new questions that Andy Burnham is pushing into the discussion. 1/2
This is a brilliant piece of work by @tomelleryrees
Data shows Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’ boom has been largely confined to wealthy areas like the city centre
Towns on the outskirts like Wigan have seen GDP growth per head below the national average
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Not the result we wanted. But thanks to everyone who came up to speak to me today.
Appreciate all the advice and agree with the main consensus: “Get new running shorts.”
The one bit that sticks most in my mind? “You need to be clearer that Labour left us. We didn’t leave Labour.”
I agree. From here on, I will say it more clearly: mine is a campaign to change Labour back to the party people used to know. A party solidly on the side of working class people. Make no mistake about that.
Despite what happened on the pitch, Everton FC once again excelled off it. It gave me hope that, despite everything, we can re-build more unity in our country. 🙌🏻
#bradleylowery @Bradleysfight
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🧵Our work with @UCLPolicyLab has looked at the crisis of respect in politics, people don’t feel our political class respects them or their communities. A previous focus group in Makerfield found the sense of disrespect was acute & a feeling the PM embodied that lack of respect
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Wrote for the @spectator about Burnham and Greater Manchester. A few reflections
1) having run so many groups there the Burnham thing isn't just hype, he has broad appeal
2) Our groups and other polling evidence convinces me he'd have won in G&D and most by-election prospects.
3) Greater Manchester Mayoral race - a lot depends on splits, but suspect turnout dependent Reform most likely around a third if Labour infrastructure holds out I think they'd be favourites, but Greens could get progressive mantle spectator.com/article/could-…
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This in @joshsimonsmp piece captures in one anecdote hundreds of people we’ve spoken to in recent months who make up Reform’s second 10-15%. They have worries about Reform (SEND actually has become one of the most mentioned ones) but feel they have to vote against the status quo
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"A report is making its way around Labour types today on the “respect crisis” of voters wanting more than anything for politicians to respect ordinary people, with three-quarters saying they don’t feel the govt does"
Anoosh Chakelian on our latest report
newstatesman.com/politics/uk…
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Disrespected Britain punishing Starmer in local and devolved elections.
New analysis from UCL Policy Lab and @Moreincommon_ shows that a failure to respect ordinary people has led voters to desert the established parties.
ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/news/20…
