The Starmer Symptom

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2025
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-5109-4 (ISBN)

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Major political commentators examine how Britain has changed under a Labour government

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?

Mark Perryman's previous books include The Corbyn Effect, The Moderniser's Dilemma and The Blair Agenda. A pioneer of a left culture rooted in the convivial and participative rather than command and control, Mark mixes politics and culture as the co-founder of the self-styled 'sporting outfitters of intellectual distinction', Philosophy Football.

Foreword - Clive Lewis MP

Introduction - Mark Perryman

1. Testing the Limits of Labourism - Mark Perryman

Part One - Mapping the Hope

2. Did Labour Win or the Tories Lose? - Paula Surridge

3. No Direction Home: The Non-Politics of Starmerism - Jeremy Gilbert

4. Even Boring People Can Be Dangerous - Gargi Bhattacharyya

5. Son of a Toolmaker - Joe Kennedy

Part Two - The Fallout

6. Time to Reshuffle the Labour Left - Neal Lawson

7. A Conservative Meltdown - Phil Burton-Cartledge

8. The Resistible Rise of the Reform UK - Joe Mullhall

9. Making the Case for an Independent Left - Hilary Wainwright

Part Three - Change, Stability, Contradictions

10. How to Transform an Unequal Britain - Danny Dorling

11. There is Always an Alternative - James Meadway

12. No Democratic Reform, No Change - Jess Garland

13. From Climate Emergency to National Renewal - Andrew Simms

Part Four - The Outcomes

14. Labour According to Morgan McSweeney - Emma Burnell

15. The Unions Make Us Strong - Gregor Gall

16. Biting the Hand That Doesn't Feed Us - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Pragmatic, Social Democratic, Radical - Eunice Goes

Part Five - Understanding Keir Starmer's Labour Party

A Guide to Labour Battleground Seats at the Next General Election

Symptom of What? Further Reading and Other Resources

Afterwords

Notes on Contributors

Ackhnowledgements

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.08.2025
Vorwort	Clive Lewis
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7453-5109-3 / 0745351093
ISBN-13	978-0-7453-5109-4 / 9780745351094
Zustand	Neuware