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The new Labour government is pitching “change” to “working people” but it needs to update its idea of who these people are.
Voters are now split on social identity. This new division, combined with distrust in established parties, is proving fertile ground for challenger parties.
Listen to the fifth and final episode of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics from The Conversation Documentaries podcast.
Class was once a strong indicator of which political party you would support. But since 2001, something quite different has been happening.
We shouldn’t think differently about working-class MPs taking gifts but the reality is that we do.
What does the background of MPs mean for the way they govern? Listen to part 3 of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics.
More people in modern Britain identify as working class than middle class.
In the second part of our podcast series Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, we trace the history of class politics over the past century.
The Conservative MP is far from the only politician to play up her working-class credentials and the changing nature of class in the UK makes it possible.
The first episode of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics from The Conversation Documentaries podcast.
Listen to the trailer for a new podcast series from The Conversation Documentaries on the relationship between class and politics in Britain.
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Host, Know Your Place podcast, The Conversation
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Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde and Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Social Research
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Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
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Director of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership and Professor of Politics, King's College London
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Professor in the Sociology of Politics, Official Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Politics and member of Reactionary Politics Research Network, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Lancaster University
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Deputy Chief Executive, National Centre for Social Research
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Lecturer Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Swansea University
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Postdoctoral Research Officer, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Lecturer in Human Geography, Aberystwyth University