School of Politics and International Relations

Professor Tim Bale, Labour in Brighton: it’s not a cult, it’s too big for that now

27 September 2017

Professor Tim Bale writes for The Conversation about the Labour party conference in Brighton: “The main hall in Brighton resembled nothing so much as an American mega-church with a congregation of wildly enthusiastic true believers. Whether some of the more agnostic folk going about their daily business outside it – or the voters in constituencies that look nothing like this city and never will do – can be made to share that enthusiasm remains, of course, to be seen.”
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