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Partner at Public First (education, levelling up and Labour). Quant, qual, political comms. Ex-journo. Occasional govt adviser.
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Can Andy Burnham restore working class faith in education?

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By Ed Dorrell
| Progressive Britain
With the arrival of Andy Burnham, the battle for the political heart of this country is back on – only he can take Reform on and win. That the ex-mayor of Manchester’s story and he’s selling it well. The prime minister-elect has also made it abundantly clear, especially in his speech last week, that he views the rise of populism as just one aspect of a broader and more terrifying collapse in economic and political disengagement if whole swathes of provincial England.
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‘A lesson from Makerfield: voters know Rupert Lowe, but not Labour’s immigration reforms’

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By Ed Dorrell
| LabourList
The very first person I approached in the very first place I visited in Makerfield set the tone for the rest of my time talking to voters throughout the constituency. The scene was a proper greasy spoon café, the man was a railway worker eating an extremely good-looking fry-up. Did he know much about the by-election? “Don’t really know what that is.” Did he have an opinion about Andy Burnham?
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Who Will Speak to the Next Generation of Voters?

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By Ed Dorrell
| progressivebritain.org
Over the last handful of years, I’ve probably moderated hundreds of focus groups around the country. Not much can phase me about public opinion. Yet every now and again something happens that makes me sit up and take note. On one such occasion, towards the end of last year, I was speaking to an unusual group: some of today’s children who will (probably) make up part of the cohort of the youngest voters in the history of British democracy.
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