‘Blue Labour’
& the Thiel Effect

How MAGA Is Making In‑Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement has transformed politics in the United States – and is now flowing into the UK. Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes investigate how this influence is being transmitted

Blue Labour’s
‘Man in America’

Lord Maurice Glasman likes to visit what he calls a ‘bike shed’ round the back of the upper chamber where he sits smoking roll-ups and shooting the political breeze.

With his East End accent and affable manner, he is happy to engage. Ordering burgers and chips in the House of Lords canteen, he seems to know all the staff by name, whom he treats like peers rather than peers of the realm.

And so Lord Glasman may – or may not – appear to be an unusual candidate to enter the eye of the storm since Donald Trump’s re-election in the United States.

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