Peter Lee and Localism Today
Renewal - ISSN 0968-5211
Volume 26 Number 1 (2018)
Peter Lee and Localism Today
Rachel Reeves pages -
Abstract
In recounting Peter Lee’s story, John Tomaney offers a powerful account of the source and character of Labour’s strength in one of its traditional heartlands. Many of these communities, especially in the North East and Midlands, detached from global growth and benefiting least from the knowledge and creative economies, have been drifting away from Labour since midway through the last decade, a process which continued – despite our success in Britain’s cities and university towns – in June 2017. All too often, in Tomaney’s evocative phrase, the party hangs on thanks to the ‘diminishing moral and physical capital accumulated’ by past generations.
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Rachel Reeves (2018) Peter Lee and Localism Today, Renewal, 26(1), -