- Building Bridges
- Sally Gimson
- 16 December 2020
- Elections , Labour party
One of the features of Labour’s disastrous 2019 general election that has been most commented on was the fall of the Red Wall. There has been a lot of debate about why those places across the Midlands and the north of England were lost, but very few practical suggestions about how to win them back. Where better to look for answers than at Bassetlaw, a seat which saw the biggest swing to the Conservatives in the country?
In this pamphlet, Sally Gimson puts forward a range of policies to help Labour reconnect with voters and build a wide coalition across cities, towns and the countryside to defeat the Tories in 2024.
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