Melissa Todd

melissartodd.bsky.social

07 October 2026 13:27

So cool!

Melissa Todd

melissartodd.bsky.social

06 October 2026 17:47

Been acting with Steve Pemberton tonight! I'll never sleep. Mr Todd will need to chloroform me.

Christabel Cooper

christabelcoops.bsky.social

27 September 2026 08:40

"Who is Andy Burnham For?" looks at which voters the new PM is winning back based on the groups @thinklabour.bsky.social identified in May: values-driven left-liberals, the economically insecure motivated by material concerns and transactional voters focused on delivery. substack.com/inbox/post/2...

Christabel Cooper

christabelcoops.bsky.social

27 September 2026 08:40

But Labour is still 8 points behind where it was at the General Election. And it faces some incredibly difficult choices, which governments for the last 16 years have ducked because they are painful, but can't be avoided for much longer - on welfare, growth, justice and immigration among others.

Christabel Cooper

christabelcoops.bsky.social

27 September 2026 08:40

Deft political strategy has got the new administration to this point, but now it needs to have the confidence to enact policies which won't be popular in the short-term, in order to make sure transactional voters in particular, feel that Labour is their best choice by the time of the next election.