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The 2017 Labour General Election Campaign: Ushering in a ‘New Politics’?

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2018
In many ways, the British General Election campaign of 2017 marked a return to ‘old politics’ with the reaffirmation of a two-party system and levels of voter turnout not seen in 25 years.
Emma Bell
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United Kingdom: Political Developments and Data in 2024

European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 637-652, December 2025.
Abstract Rather than a widely expected autumn election, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called one to be held on 4 July. His Conservative Party were reduced to just 121 seats, and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer became the new Prime Minister. The change in administration led to some significant policy shifts towards the latter half of the year—in particular,
ALIA MIDDLETON
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Generation Left after Corbynism [PDF]

South Atlantic Quarterly, 2021
Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party has allowed age to emerge as a dramatic new axis of political division. This article treats the political generation gap as, in part, a transformation in class composition. Most notably, starting with the political age divide makes recognition of a shift toward an asset-based economy hard to avoid.
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“The Party as a Terrain of Struggle”: The Corbyn Programme and the Horizons of the British Left in the Twenty First Century

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
This article analyses the Corbyn programme as an “observatory of social relations” between actors from across the British Left. We adopt a conception of party programmes inspired by French political sociology, as the product of the link between ...
Nicolas Jara-Joly
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The “Youthquake” in British Politics: Myth or Reality?

Societies, 2019
This article explores whether the past few years have witnessed what can accurately be described as a “youthquake” in British politics, following the candidature and election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party.
Bradley Allsop, Ben Kisby
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Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.
Short Abstract The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working‐class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by London's ‘metropolitan elite’. I theorise the contemporary English North–South divide as a form of ‘splitting’, a psycho‐spatial strategy ...
Saskia Papadakis
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Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings

European Journal of Political Research, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1759-1782, November 2025.
Abstract The ideological fit between party grassroots and leaderships has long been a concern for political science, with members in general, and young members in particular, thought to be more radical. However, we do not know, first, whether this is still the case and, if it is, what drives members in different ideological directions.
DUNCAN MCDONNELL, SOFIA AMMASSARI, ANNIKA WERNER, NIKLAS BOLIN, MARCO VALBRUZZI, HUGO FERRINHO LOPES, REINHARD HEINISCH, ANN‐CATHRINE JUNGAR, CARSTEN WEGSCHEIDER   +8 more
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« Zombie Blairites » in a « Momentum plot »: The Political Polarisation of the British Labour Party over a Local Regeneration Scheme in The Guardian and The Observer

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The British Labour Party, under its 2015-2020 leader, Jeremy Corbyn was harshly divided between the Corbynites at the head of the party, supporting radical left-wing views, and the local Blairite councillors, supporting moderate views.
Marie-Pierre Vincent
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Discourse Networks and Dual Screening: Analyzing Roles, Content and Motivations in Political Twitter Conversations

Politics and Governance, 2020
The increasing relevance of social networking platforms is accompanied by a growing number of studies using digital trace data. However, most studies still lack further understanding of the data-generating process.
Felix Bossner, Melanie Nagel
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The Bias‐and‐Expertise Model: A Bayesian Network Model of Political Source Characteristics

Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 11, November 2025.
Abstract Perceptions of source credibility may play a role in major societal challenges like political polarization and the spread of misinformation as citizens disagree over which sources of political information are credible and sometimes trust untrustworthy sources.
David J. Young, Lee H. de‐Wit
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