What’s the future of the Labour party? Andy Beckett, Matthew Goodwin and Faiza Shaheen discuss

At an LSE event on 4 October, Andy Beckett, Matthew Goodwin and Faiza Shaheen discussed the future of the Labour party. Can it unite after Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election as leader, or is it doomed to split? Beckett, counselling patience, says the generation gap within Labour needs to close and Momentum activists must stand as MPs; Goodwin warns Labour that Corbyn’s unpopularity and the declining appeal of social democracy to voters puts the party in a very weak position. Shaheen argues Labour needs to change the debate on welfare and urges it not to embrace anti-immigration policies. Robin Archer chairs.

Listen to the podcast: The Future of the Labour Party

Jeremy Corbyn in 2014. Photo: Haydn via a CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 licence

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