Soft Skills, Hard Labour: The Case for a New Soft Left/Blue Labour Politics
It’s clear that, all across the progressive spectrum, people are unhappy with the current direction of the leadership at the top of the Labour Party. Because of this, we are seeing different groups from all over begin to voice the direction they think the party should go.
The two most significant of these are the ‘soft left’ and Blue Labour.
These two groupings are often presented as at loggerheads with each other, entirely incompatible if one vision is to win out. But this publication gives a detailed, dialectical account of what unites these forces more than divides them.
Written with the well established wit and complexity of one of Compass’ foremost voices, Frances Foley, this is a basis to cut through the name-calling and long-held division to build something greater.
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