South Articles

‘You have to realise how much people elsewhere do not like London.’ The admonishment from a frontbencher during the general election campaign explains some of the findings in Lewis Baston’s report ‘Is southern discomfort spreading?’. Although we are rightly proud of...

I will not vote for any candidate who is not serious about winning in the south. Nearly a third of our target seats in 2020 will be in the south west, south east and east of England. In the coming years, Labour will have to reach out to voters in Basingstoke and St...

In November 1988, the Democrat presidential candidate, Michael Dukakis, led his party to its third consecutive defeat. In its aftermath, two academics, Elaine Kamarck and William Galston, published a short monograph, The Politics of Evasion, in which they accused...

How long before we start hearing calls for devolution to ‘the south’? Perhaps sooner than we think. Labour’s ‘southern discomfort’ is a long-running difficulty which has re-emerged in recent years. But the recent establishment of the Southern Policy Centre, whose...