The British Labour Party has been one of the key political institutions in the UK in the last century for the advancement of social change. Yet one critical aspect of its makeup has always been misunderstood, underplayed or misrepresented: it's Britishness. Throughout the party's history, its Britishness has been an integral part of how it has it has governed, and done politics. Moreover, over the last decade or so, a new mobilising form of national identity has emerged, one that has become increasingly problematic for Labour: that of Englishness. Indeed there is some evidence that...
The British Labour Party has been one of the key political institutions in the UK in the last century for the advancement of social change. Yet one cr...