🌊The tide is turning The coast has consistently backed winning causes over the last 40 years - Thatcher, Blair, Leave, Johnson... Now nearly half (44%) of coastal voters back Labour, while support for the Conservatives has fallen by 20pts since 2019.

New polling from Labour Together just dropped!

It’s a year since I took up the fantastic role of Director of Research at @labourtogether. Until then, I’d not had a formal job in politics – I’ve spent most of my career doing “normal” jobs in “normal” workplaces. Some reflections on the disconnect between those two worlds. 1/

📚 Our narrow curriculum is failing our kids - it's time to go Broad and Bold. Twice as many Britons think their local schools are getting worse (39%) than think they are getting better (19%). This is also true for parents - 41% think local schools are getting worse.

Absolutely love this & think Rory Sutherland will too (if he wasn't behind it...) - sometimes new infrastructure not required because you can just show what is already there in a new way theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Well.. I’m tired. But I joined Aggie Chambre on the road (and train) back and forth from Wellingborough over the last month for our diary of a by-election 📔 POLITICOEurope open.spotify.com/episode/3z06jG…

Awful news. A hero of our time. And a man of extraordinary bravery.

Happy St David’s Day! Let’s celebrate everything that’s wonderful about Wales! Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I want a new series of The Thick of It where Malcolm Tucker & Stuart Pearson have started a successful podcast together - they still absolutely loathe each other but the money is just too good for them to stop.

Pleasure, as ever, to be on Talk with Rosanna Lockwood. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but why did the Tories take so long to realise non-doms need taxing? Could it have something to do with the couple next door? .....

🏘️ How can we breathe life into town centres? Featuring @Emma_Hoddinott Rebecca Taylor Melanie Leech Morgan Garfield & Josh Williams 🗳️ Nick Plumb Ben Ansell Munira Murza Chris Curtis MP Charlotte Hollins & Fiona Reynolds will ask how to restore trust in politics

Pleasure to have joined the TERRIFYINGLY TOXIC Adam Hawksbee on Talk this morning.

Late to the party, but this is a pretty amazing (and short!) piece by Angus Deaton, OG of globalisation, questioning some pretty fundamental stuff that he long believed about the economy: imf.org/en/Publication…

Couldn't resist...

🎙️NEW EPISODE🎙️As every poll tells us how unpopular Sunak is I found out the secrets of pollsters + could the polls be wrong? Andrew Cooper Stanley Greenberg Tom Lubbock Scarlett Maguire Rachel Cunliffe focus groups w Josh Williams Labour Together & Luke Tryl politico.eu/podcast/the-se…

Great turnout for team Labour Together in Birmingham today getting the vote out for Richard Parker and Simon Foster #VoteLabour

Polls have closed! ⏰ A huge thanks to the Labour Together family and local Labour members for getting out the vote today in Birmingham Ladywood 🌹

The Big Short: Rishi Sunak 🛁