Deborah Mattinson Articles

Of course, I have no idea what the Conservatives’ strategy for 2015 is – but after listening to swing voters in marginal seats up and down the country I have a few thoughts about what it should be if they want to win. BritainThinks’ work for Progress, Meet the Swing...

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...

Does voters’ distrust of politics provide an opportunity, asks Hopi Sen These dispatches from the electoral frontline from Deborah Mattinson and Zoe Tyndall are dominated by disbelief and mistrust in politics. The political classes do not understand these voters’...

On a few occasions, as Steve Van Riel notes in The Purple Papers, the Labour government did suggest people should pay more for better public services. When it was a rise in national insurance for the health service, this was largely popular. When it was a levy on...