Keir Starmer may have changed who is a Labour member and Labour policies but he has had no impact on the geography of class support for the Party, no doubt much to his annoyance.
Labour support in 2024 is concentrated in South Wales, London,the North West and Tyneside much as it was 60 years ago at the 1964 Election and something Eric Hobsbawm wrote about on Labour and the City, New Left Review, 1/166 1987. In this there lies perhaps hope for the future beyond Starmer
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