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Rory Macqueen, former chief economic advisor to Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, offers a Labour perspective on the campaign in which he candidly reflects on how the divisions within the party extended beyond—but never far beyond—the thorny issue of Brexit. The chapter acknowledges how these extensively reported internal tensions played out in a wide-ranging discussion that touches on the various factors that contributed to the party’s fourth consecutive defeat.
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51 if Colne Valley is excluded: estimates of the result there vary.
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This treats the Brexit Party as a direct successor to UKIP: if UKIP is excluded the gain for Leave parties increases to 10.5 points.
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Macqueen, R. (2022). No Time for Real Change: Labour. In: Wring, D., Mortimore, R., Atkinson, S. (eds) Political Communication in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81406-9_4
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