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by Lisa Lawrence on 2024-08-21T08:29:37+01:00 in International Relations and Politics | 0 CommentsAfter 14 years of a Conservative Government, July 4th 2024 saw a General Election take place and a Labour landslide victory with 411 seats (an increase of 209 from their total in the 2019 election). You can read the official report from the House of Commons Library if you want a `breakdown of constituency and candidate level vote counts as well as analysis and charts of the data.
If you would like to know more about the Party that has just come in to power in the UK, then, as usual, the Library has you covered.
A History of the British Labour Party by
ISBN: 9781137409843
Publication Date: 2015
Labour Under Corbyn: Constraints on Radical Politics in the UK by
ISBN: 3030602621
Publication Date: 2021
The Starmer Project by
ISBN: 9781839764622
Publication Date: 2022-06-07
Forensic political biography of the Labour Party leader Hailed as a human-rights champion and political outsider, what sort of politician is Keir Starmer really, and what mark is he making on the new politics of Labour? In The Starmer Project, Oliver Eagleton provides a careful reading of Starmer's record at the Crown Prosecution Service and as a member of Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet, tracing the political alliances he forged and the roots of his bid for the party leadership. Starmer originally pledged to revitalise Corbynism with a dose of lawyerly competence. To understand what happened afterwards it is necessary to understand the man himself. So little remains known about Starmer that his actions are usually interpreted as overtures to others. On closer inspection, however, he is anything but an empty political vessel.
Elections and Voters in Britain by
ISBN: 9783030864910
Publication Date: 2021-11-28
How do voters in Britain decide which party to vote for in elections? Have age and education replaced class as the social basis for voting? Are elections now 'presidentialised', with voters simply choosing between party leaders? What role do the media, new and old, play in all of this? The authors examine these and other questions in the fourth edition of this popular text. The core of the text is devoted to examining and explaining theories of party choice, including the debate about whether voters are driven more by issues and ideology or simply by which party and leader looks least likely to make a mess of things in office. The authors also devote separate chapters to turnout trends and patterns, the media, electoral systems, the geography of party support, and - new to this edition - referendums. Fully revised and with detailed analysis of the 2019 election and the electoral fallout of Brexit, the text incorporates the latest research on elections and voting behaviour, and includes analysis of recent trends and developments - such as the effect of digital media on electoral politics and where recent misfires leave the opinion polls.
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