Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘The virus is changing politics, but there are opportunities as well as risks’, Times, 13 May 2020.
- ‘Does Boris Johnson have the Conservative Party’s permission to extend transition?’, with Hovid Minasyan, 30 April, UK in a Changing Europe.
- ‘A Brexit extension would face serious opposition even during coronavirus’, Financial Times, 11 April 2020
- ‘Covid-19 and the transition period’, UK in a Changing Europe, 19 March 2020.
- ‘Level up: Boosting the regions might mean levelling down London’ (with Phil Cowley), CityAM, 12 March 2020.
- ‘Poll reveals tensions in new Tory coalition’, Unherd, 11 March 2020.
- ‘Wash your hands, Big Brother is watching you’, Times, 9 March 2020.
- ‘Research with party members offers an important clue about how to heal Brexit divisions’, The Conversation, 5 February 2020.
- ‘What does Brexit mean for the UK’s party system?’, New Statesman, 5 February 2020.
- ‘We asked Labour members why their party lost. Here’s what they said’, LabourList, 3 February 2020.
Tag Archives: Labour members
‘Why Labour’s Brexit strategy may be in trouble – and why Theresa May has reason to worry too’ (with Alan Wager), New Statesman, 5 February 2018.
In spite of the fact that it accords with common wisdom – or maybe because of it – aside from the odd (sometimes very odd) political scientist, not many people will have heard of ‘May’s special law of curvilinear disparity’. Essentially, it … Continue reading
‘What matters for Labour is not the general election but what happens next’, New Statesman, 19 May 2017
A handful of recent polls suggest Labour is doing better than many expected at the start of the campaign. Whatever the reason, though, the gap between it and the Conservatives is still a yawning one. Bluntly, it remains the case … Continue reading
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‘Explaining the pro-Corbyn surge in Labour’s membership’ (with Monica Poletti and Paul Webb), LSE British Politics and Policy Blog, 16 November 2016
As part of our ESRC-funded Party Members Project (PMP), we fielded a first survey with existing Labour members in May 2015 and a second one with post-election members in May 2016. We now know that at the most recent leadership … Continue reading
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‘Middle-class university graduates will decide the future of the Labour Party’, New Statesman, 14 July 2016 (with Monica Poletti and Paul Webb).
We don’t yet know whether it will be Angela Eagle or Owen Smith, or maybe both of them, who ends up running against Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership. But what we do know – because we reckon we now … Continue reading
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‘Jezza’s Bezzas: Labour’s New Members’, Huffington Post, 28 June 2016.
Labour is in crisis. Whoever stands in the next leadership contest will have to face its grassroots members, large numbers of whom joined the party to help elect Jeremy Corbyn in 2015. With the help of YouGov and as part … Continue reading
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