By Mark Hanson
I normally post here about social media but it’s sometimes important to get structural, i.e. to link together why life is changing and people want a totally different relationship with a political party.
This involves big questions about how people find others of like-minds and where/when/how they want to get together. Labour is organised by locality, i.e. CLP, and will for a long time to come, but sometimes it’s worth thinking how that can modify.
David Lammy is the most prominent of our senior politicians that talks about that stuff. Yes, yes, often in a very roundabout and thorough way, but he’s often worth listening to.
My friend, Mike Kenny at the ippr, led a discussion with Lammy, Jessica Asato (Progress), Sunder Katawala (Fabians) and Rick Muir (ippr). The podcast is here.
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