"Centre-Left Parties in the West, Predominantly Professional and Middle Class These Days, Have Been Turned On By a Large Part of the Blue-Collar Base They Were Founded to Serve"

"If Labour wishes to reconnect with its lost voters outside the progressive, liberal cities, these instincts and preoccupations must be given more respect and space to express themselves. Equal rights and equal access to individual fulfilment are fundamental to any contemporary notion of the common good. But belonging, a sense of mutual dependency and the idea that individuals find meaning in something bigger than themselves contribute to it too."

At The Guardian, Julian Coman argues that "[i]n beginning a new conversation with the voters it has lost, the left needs to take its own conservative traditions more seriously."