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Claire Ainsley

Claire Ainsley is Director of the Centre-Left Renewal project of the Progressive Policy Institute and was Labour’s Executive Director of Policy 2020-22.

The Tories don’t understand the new working class

The Red Wall voters who backed the Tories in 2019 were driven by economic concerns, not cultural conservatism.

By Claire Ainsley

The Tories don’t understand the new working class

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Labour is breaking with a failed economic consensus

Far from lacking ambition, the party’s challenge will be to align a series of mini-revolutions.

By Claire Ainsley

The left can win and forge a new settlement – but only if it repairs the trust we have lost

Research reveals a strong public appetite for progressive ideas. But we cannot flourish in an environment of mutual intolerance.

By Claire Ainsley

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