Eleri Kirkpatrick-Lorente

The UK has very few mass transit systems compared to peers

The map below shows how far behind France and Germany we are in mass transit. In France, every place with over 150,000 people has some form of tram or metro.

But if mayoral areas can 'become builders' as @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social puts it in the foreword, we can turn this around.

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Exactly this. If the Democrats win, they have to do more than just govern: they have to make sure that backsliding can never happen again. That will take more than just tinkering around the edges, otherwise there will be another Trump in the future.

The cowardice and complacency of so much of the UK political class in the face of what is both an obvious moral evil and a serious socio-political threat is as discrediting as it is dispiriting

We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder.

Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.

Where is the Post in First-Past-the-Post (and Beyond)? A Logical Model of the Effective District-Wide Threshold I present a new model of the effective district-wide threshold: the vote share at which any given party has a 50/50 chance of winning its first seat in a district. To derive my model, I rely only on s...

🧵 I have a new paper online @apsa-preprints.bsky.social where I try to answer a deceptively simple question:

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 '𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵' 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵-𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵-𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴?

Summary below 👇

preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

✈️ Britain’s talked about a third runway at Heathrow for two decades. Our new report with @BritishProgress shows how a flight could take off before 2029 - if Parliament chooses to speed up the process through a Public Bill.

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

I’ve never understood the irrational opposition to universal ID in this country so very happy to see this in my inbox today

White British people will be a minority in 40 years, report claims Shifting ethnic dynamic of the UK driven by immigration predicted to cause dramatic changes

'the white British share of the population – defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent' 😂😂 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...

Lee Jae-myung going beast mode

Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

Absolute disaster for the Australian right if this pans out. Which is a terrible shame of course.

🧵Want to use our mayoral polls to show why turnout matters both in terms of the overall result and trying to model it. We know turnout in these races is likely to be ~30-40% far lower than in a General Election, so who is in actually in the electorate has outsized influence.

Reform Is The Common Enemy In The Unpredictable Race For Hull And East Yorkshire Mayor The closely-fought race to become the first-ever mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire is seen as tough to call – but it is clear that Reform UK is bein...

🔴🔵🟠➡️ The four largest parties have a decent chance at winning the tight contest for Hull and East Yorkshire mayor

But the Labour, Tory and Lib Dem candidates are treating Reform candidate, former Olympic boxer Luke Campbell, as their common enemy

My report from the region 👇

If you know, you know

'Give mayors more power to tackle economic challenges in their regions' - LabourList Tracy Brabin writes that mayors need the tools to tackle the bespoke economic challenges in their regions.

Great article by @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social for @labourlist.bsky.social drawing on @labourtogether.bsky.social research.

Looks at how mayors and the government can work together to correct our regional imbalances, creating a society that works for every place.

labourlist.org/2025/04/west...

ICYMI - we published a new report on rebalancing the country endorsed by @chriscurtis94.bsky.social of the Labour Growth Group and @jowhitemp.bsky.social of the Red Wall Group.

Below are my 5️⃣ favourite charts from the report.

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Labour urged to create 'Transpennine Growth Corridor' to capitalise on rail project The Government must create a special “growth corridor” to capitalise on the Transpennine Route Upgrade to help rebalance the UK’s economy, a new report has said.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...

New research by Labour Together reveals the nature of inequalities in public investment.

What we call 'growth spending' is 41 per cent lower in the East Midlands per capita than it is in London. Here's a regional breakdown:

Nation Rebalanced: How do we create a country that works for all places? — Labour Together This report, by Labour Together’s Director of Devolution, JP Spencer, sets out a bold vision for how to rebalance the UK economy and create prosperity in every part of the country. It outlines four k...

📣 New report 📣

In a volatile world, we need an economy that is firing on all cylinders - but regional imbalances are driving overheating and stagnation in different places.

www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

Need more joined up thinking on the north [FREE TO READ] Also in this week’s newsletter, regional disparities in the government’s ‘growth spending’

Train content 🚂

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Great comic timing from the Danes here.

“Angela Rayner asked whether she could do something on her off time during a trip, was told it wasn’t on, so didn’t” isn’t exactly a Woodward and Bernstein level exclusive

Sky News: Leaking of war plans in group chat raises huge questions about US national security - analysis.

You reckon?

A poll showing that the Conservatives are on course to win the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoralty with 31 per cent of the vote.

New poll from Labour Together that really underlines just how utterly negligent it was not to change the electoral system for mayors back to ranked voting.

Labour on course to lose key mayoral post in May, poll suggests The Conservatives are ahead in the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough mayoral race, according to a poll by Labour Together

@labourtogether.bsky.social have just published our recent poll of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority. A write up can be found here: inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Data tables, here: static1.squarespace.com/static/64f70...

NEW: Just 6% of Gen Z say they actually want a dictator – not over half, as has been recently claimed.

Our study finds only a very small minority of 13-27-yr-olds really feel this way, when their views and interpretations are tested with different questioning approaches 🧵⬇️