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Deborah Mattinson Articles

No Regrexit

Public opinion has not shifted back to ‘Remain’ ‘When I woke up the next morning and realised we’d gone Brexit, I felt like England had won the World Cup!’ enthused Doug, a 42-year-old scaffolder from Harlow in one of BritainThinks’ focus groups this September. Other...

Labour’s deja vu

Labour is losing out as older women switch back to the Tories, warns Deborah Mattinson Analysis of the current demographics of voting behaviour shows that Labour’s strength with women voters, strength that kept Labour in government in 2001 and 2005, is ebbing away as...

Beyond Beckett

In June last year, soon after the general election, acting leader of the Labour party, Harriet Harman, got in touch. She wanted to commission voter research to help to understand why Labour lost. I, along with colleagues, Ben Shimshon and Cordelia Hay, undertook that...

After Heywood

Labour must learn why it has lost so many voters, especially men, argues Deborah Mattinson Labour suffered what one shadow cabinet member described as a ‘near-death experience’ in Heywood and Middleton last month. Had the worst actually happened then maybe something...