Where No Labour Government Has Gone Before

Abstract

POLITICAL INSIGHT • SEPTEMBER 2023 T hese are strange days for the Labour Party. As the expectation builds that the Conservatives will not be able to recover from their current unpopularity, Labour are now the favourites to form the next government. Yet this optimism about Labour’s electoral prospects increasingly co-exists with growing apprehension in the party about how difficult an economic inheritance the Conservatives will bequeath to their successors. Although history can only offer rough analogies rather than precise conclusions, Where No Labour Government Has Gone Before