Post election reflections on the Labour Party: Part 2
Whatever the future holds Labour should beware both the New and the Blue
Owen Parker
Associate Fellow, SPERI, & Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield
Post-election reflections on the Labour Party
In this post-election blog, Owen Parker argues that whatever the future holds- Labour should beware both the ‘New’ and the ‘Blue’.
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