Southern Discomfort Articles

Britain as a whole is becoming more like the south. Labour needs to understand the challenge this presents to it, argues Caroline Flint. In October 1992, in the wake of Labour’s fourth successive election defeat, Giles Radice identified the problem of ‘southern...

Labour is now the only party capable of winning across the whole of the country Just like with Barack Obama’s ‘50-state strategy’ in 2008 – where he took his campaign into states where the Democrats had not campaigned in decades – there must be no ‘no-go areas’ for...

Speech from Caroline Flint MP to the Third Place First conference, Reading Civic Centre, Saturday 23 June, 2012 Thank you, Keith, Michael, Guildford and Reading Labour parties, Southern Front and LabourList for supporting today’s relaunch of the Third Place First...

The growing regional divide defines the British political landscape: addressing this major electoral cleavage requires a departure from both New Labour orthodoxy and denial of the ‘southern discomfort effect’. Research by YouGov has confirmed that while class was once...