In her victory speech, Badenoch described her first tasks as ‘tough but simple’ – we’d argue they’re tough and extremely challenging.
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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.
Rachel Reeves is aiming for growth and has focused tax rises on the well-off.
Going for growth… but can chancellor Rachel Reeves keep workers and business happy at the same time?
We shouldn’t think differently about working-class MPs taking gifts but the reality is that we do.
Labour party activists often campaign for US Democrats – but no one has ever tested whether they should in a legal case.
More people in modern Britain identify as working class than middle class.
The two parties are actually fishing in slightly different ponds.
The British government needs to play a more central role in shaping the economy.
The former SNP leader and face of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum has died at the age of 69.
Keir Starmer is not the first prime minister to run into difficulties – but only he can turn this ship around.
James Cleverly was the MPs’ favourite to stand in the final round of the leadership contest, but they somehow managed to knock him out, leaving the two rightwing candidates in the race.
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.
Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat all made 20-minute speeches pitching to party members, but there was little time to wonder what went wrong in July.
The rules around donations have been reviewed before and it’s hard to see this drama changing them.
Personality politics only ever ends one way.
It’s party conference season in Britain, a chance for members to meet and talk through their successes and failures from the election campaign – and start talking strategy for the next. Perhaps inevitably…
The prime minister was under pressure to shift the mood at party conference and he appears to have met the brief.
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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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Birmingham, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Associate Tutor in Politics and Social Sciences, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Politics & International Studies, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester
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Associate Tutor in Politics, Edge Hill University
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Professor of British Politics, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Communication, University of Liverpool
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Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
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Reader in Political Science and International Relations, Aston University