Starmer Symptom

Edited by Mark Perryman

ISBN13: 9780745351094

Imprint: Pluto Press

Publisher: Pluto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 20/08/2025

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04.07.24: Fourteen years of Tory gross mismanagement of government, economy and society came to a crashing and well-deserved end. Keir Starmer's Labour government was elected with a landslide of seismic proportions. But with a huge Parliamentary majority delivered on a share of the vote that would ordinarily spell defeat, this was more about the Tories losing than Labour winning. The old assumptions have been torn up. Throw into the mix an increasingly five-party (six in Scotland) system where once it was two and the potential for electoral volatility if Labour ends up disappointing is obvious. The Starmer Symptom brings together leading political writers to navigate the complex terrain of this seismic shift in British politics. This unique collection analyses voter data, and looks at the break-up of the two-party system with the rise of a populist right in Reform UK and a new independent left. Will Keir Starmer's government be able to successfully combine the pragmatic and social democratic to produce radical change? And if not, who is waiting in the wings?
Foreword Introduction - Mark Perryman Part One - Mapping the Hope 1. The Forward March of Labour Unhalted - Jeremy Gilbert  2. How Labour Turned Defeat Into Victory -  Paula Surridge 3. Shooting the Messenger - Emma Burnell  4. Much Ado About the Son of a Toolmaker - Joe Kennedy  Part Two - The Fallout 5. The Perils of Monopoly Labourism - Neal Lawson 6. The Conservative Meltdown - Phil Burton-Cartledge 7. The Resistible Rise of the Populist Right - Joe Mullhall 8. Back to the Fragments - Hilary Wainwright  Part Three - Stability, Change, a Circle Squared 9. It's the Economy, Not Stupid - James Meadway  10. Climate Emergency Incoming - Andrew Simms  11. No Democratic Reform, No Change - Jess Garland  12. Putting Britain Back Together Again - Brendan McGeever  Part Four - The Outcomes  13. Whatever Happened to Left Populism? - Marina Prentoulis  14. Unions Make Us Strong - Gregor Gall 15. Biting the Hand that Doesn't Feed Us - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown 16. Pragmatic, Social Democratic, Radical - Eunice Goes
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