David Jeffery

David Jeffery is a lecturer in British Politics at the University of Liverpool.

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Rishi Sunak: working-class champion? New polling shows that low-income voters prefer the PM to Keir Starmer

02 May 2023

Where are the one-nation Tories?

25 Nov 2022

Has Liz Truss killed off free-market Toryism? The ideas that swept her to power now face extinction

02 Oct 2022

Keir Starmer’s squandered chance

17 Aug 2022

Is this the end of levelling up?

22 Jul 2022

Liverpool is not as exceptional as it thinks The city is not a hotbed of republicanism

17 May 2022

How Labour broke Liverpool

04 May 2022

What Boris Johnson must do next

04 Feb 2022

The North likes Margaret Thatcher more than you might think The former PM polls well in the Red Wall and beyond

08 Apr 2021

How to pacify the populists New research suggests that they cause long-term economic harm

22 Feb 2021

Labour’s real problem is Wales

19 Feb 2021

Should the Green Party’s poll progress worry Labour? Ipsos polling places them three times higher than their vote share in 2019

10 Feb 2021

The myth of ‘Scouse not English’ Liverpool has long thought itself detached from the rest of England — but is it?

01 Feb 2021

Don’t stereotype Red Wall Tories, Boris

19 Nov 2020

The Thatcherites no longer run the asylum Boris Johnson's speech underscored the new ideological positioning of the Tories

06 Oct 2020

Tory voters say: spend, spend, spend

11 Mar 2020

Can the Tories cling on to the Red Wall?

06 Jan 2020