Ben Shimshon Articles

After an awful year for progressives, Ben Shimshon and Cordelia Hay set out four ways to survive the next 12 months At BritainThinks, we are lucky to hear from voters week in and week out. In 2016, many of us forgot the lesson that you need start from where people...

Ben Shimshon responds to Parmjit Dhanda's article, 2020 vision The 2015 general election is one of the least predictable in decades. One near-certainty, however, is that older generations will turn out at a higher rate than younger members of the electorate. And as...

BritainThinks’ recent swing voter project, led by my colleague Deborah Mattinson and reported in this month’s Progress magazine, set out the critical role of the ‘symbolic policy’ for Labour’s appeal to swing voters. Our report discussed how a few, well-chosen and...