Starmer Symptom

Major political commentators examine how Britain has changed under a Labour government

List of contents

Foreword - Clive Lewis MP

Introduction - Mark Perryman

1. Testing the Limits of Labourism - Mark Perryman

Part One - Mapping the Hope

2. Did Labour Win or the Tories Lose? - Paula Surridge

3. No Direction Home: The Non-Politics of Starmerism - Jeremy Gilbert

4. Even Boring People Can Be Dangerous - Gargi Bhattacharyya

5. Son of a Toolmaker - Joe Kennedy 

Part Two - The Fallout

6. Time to Reshuffle the Labour Left - Neal Lawson

7. A Conservative Meltdown - Phil Burton-Cartledge

8. The Resistible Rise of the Reform UK - Joe Mullhall

9. Making the Case for an Independent Left - Hilary Wainwright 

Part Three - Change, Stability, Contradictions

10. How to Transform an Unequal Britain - Danny Dorling

11. There is Always an Alternative - James Meadway

12. No Democratic Reform, No Change - Jess Garland 

13. From Climate Emergency to National Renewal - Andrew Simms

Part Four - The Outcomes 

14. Labour According to Morgan McSweeney - Emma Burnell

15. The Unions Make Us Strong - Gregor Gall

16. Biting the Hand That Doesn't Feed Us - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Pragmatic, Social Democratic, Radical - Eunice Goes

Part Five - Understanding Keir Starmer's Labour Party

A Guide to Labour Battleground Seats at the Next General Election

Symptom of What? Further Reading and Other Resources

Afterwords

Notes on Contributors

Ackhnowledgements

Index

About the author

Mark Perryman's previous books include The Corbyn Effect, The Moderniser's Dilemma and The Blair Agenda. A pioneer of a left culture rooted in the convivial and participative rather than command and control, Mark mixes politics and culture as the co-founder of the self-styled 'sporting outfitters of intellectual distinction', Philosophy Football.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Perryman
• Assisted by: Mark Perryman (Editor), Perryman Mark (Editor), Lewis Clive (Foreword)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9780745351094
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-5109-4
• No. of pages: 304
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