Labour’s new coalition: challenges and opportunities
Renewal - ISSN 0968-5211
Volume 32 Number 2 & 3 (2024)
Labour’s new coalition: challenges and opportunities
Elizabeth Simon pages 13-18
Abstract
The Labour Party won the 2024 UK General Election with a landslide. They did this by building a broad, though potentially fragile, electoral coalition of ideologically opposed voters; winning the support of loyal Labour voters and of former Liberal Democrat and Conservative voters, who were dissatisfied with the Conservative Party’s record over fourteen years in government and chose to vote for change. This article sheds light on Labour’s ‘new coalition’ and considers the challenges and opportunities it poses for the party in their first term in government. Can Labour hold their ‘new coalition’ together and chart a path to victory at the next general election? And if so, how?
To cite this article
Elizabeth Simon (2024) Labour’s new coalition: challenges and opportunities, Renewal, 32(2 & 3 ), 13-18