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#59 Has Labour Lost the North? w/ Alex Niven

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4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Alex Niven joins me to talk about the erosion of support for the Labour Party in the north of England, the causes of that decline and how the Labour Party and the broader left might seek to reverse it. Our conversation was prompted by his recent article in Tribune: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/08/has-labour-lost-the-north Sound by @japinto

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The men beat on their drums. I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to

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I'm going to

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the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

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My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Alex Niven. We spoke about

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the erosion of support for the Labour Party in the north of England, the causes of that decline,

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and how the Labour Party in the broader left might seek to reverse it. Today's show is brought to you

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