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John Denham

Winchester
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Professor, Labour MP ('92-'15) and minister, Centre for English Identity and Politics, and Southern Policy Centre. Blog at www.theoptimisticpatriot.co.uk
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‘Patriotism and nation-building must be at the heart of Labour’s values story’

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By John Denham
| LabourList
In his resignation speech, Wes Streeting invoked ‘a confident British patriotism, decent, fair-minded, internationalist, bound together in common endeavour, with a conviction that our greatest strength has always been one another’. He contrasted this with a ‘brittle nationalism built on grievance’ offered by the ‘gathering storm’ of Reform UK. With those few words, Streeting opened a debate that should be central to Labour’s future.
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‘Why Total Place is vital for Labour’s chance of reforming public services’

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By John Denham
| LabourList
Towards the end of the last Labour government, a programme called ‘Total Place’  offered a radical new way to reform public services that would deliver better outcomes for the same public spending. Anyone who works in public services – and everyone who  relies on them – knows the gulf between the way services are delivered and the way we live our lives.
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Matt Goodwin is wrong about whiteness and Englishness – but here’s why he has struck a chord with some voters

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By John Denham
| Inkl
Matt Goodwin, the Reform UK candidate for the Gorton and Denton byelection, is just one of the rightwing politicians to recently question the “Englishness” of people who aren’t white and born in England. The claim is clearly out of step with reality. Exclusivist views are certainly out there, but in the minds of an increasingly small minority. There is no popular upsurge in narrow ethno-nationalism.
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