How Labour can change the national soul
Keir Starmer must find the vocabulary to enact a genuine political transformation.
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Phil Tinline
Phil Tinline is the author of The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares. His forthcoming report, How to Build a Decade of National Renewal: Five Lessons from History, co-written with Parth Patel and Harry Quilter-Pinner, will be published by the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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