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After crushing defeats across the UK last week for Keir Starmer, dozens of Labour MPs have called for him to announce he will not lead the party into the next election, and to set out a timetable to go as Prime Minister. But despite several ministerial resignations he has remained resolute that no contest has been triggered and he will remain in post, and fight any challenger who gets the nominations to stand against him. To discuss what has brought us here, and where Labour - and therefore the country - goes next, host Alain Tolhurst is joined by Calder Valley MP Josh Fenton-Glynn, one of those calling for an ‘orderly transition’ to another leader, alongside Steve Akehurst, director of research firm Persuasion UK, as well as Sienna Rodgers, deputy editor of The House magazine, and Ryan Wain, senior director at the Tony Blair Institute.

Reform’s success across Britain was a bigger story, of course. But it overshadowed an inconvenient pattern for Labour strategists hitherto fixated on Nigel Farage’s party – in so many cases, Labour lost seats to Reform because they lost votes to the Greens. Labour has suffered a heavier loss to progressive parties than to Reform, and the small section who have peeled off from Labour to Reform are far less likely to reconsider Labour than the “progressive defectors”, according to new post-local-election voting analysis shared exclusively with me by Persuasion UK, a research firm.

Fresh polling shows a new divide on the right but support remains high for UK climate policy

The number of Labour voters moving left outnumbers those going to right-wing parties in a majority of battleground seats

Some exclusive research with the New Statesman on perceptions of wealth

The New Statesman does a deep dive into our analysis of public attitudes towards tax rises around the Budget

Director, Steve Akehurst, reveals the arguments Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems can use that are most likely to turn voters away from Nigel Farage and Reform UK

The Financial Times discusses the main findings of our research into 'Reform curious' Labour voters.

Gaby Hinsliff discusses our surprise finding that young men are less likely to vote Reform or believe that feminism has gone to far, compared to older generations.

Our research showing that EVs are becoming 'normalised' despite lukewarm support from some who are deterred by cost and convenience was covered by the Press Association and picked up by 193 news outlets, including the Independent.

Our EVs research was covered extensively in Politico's Energy and Climate newsletter where they also explained that Nigel Farage might be unintentionally winning people over to EVs

The FT's Robert Shrimsley is among those citing our research on the Budget and voter expectations.

Coverage for our polling with IPPR of employer attitudes to the new government's employment rights agenda

Our research is covered in the New Statesman's influential 'Morning Call' newsletter.

Our Director is quoted in the FT's long read on the shifting electoral landscape in 'prosperous England'

Extensive coverage of our research on the 'Blue Wall'