Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

by Sebastian Payne

Overview

A road trip through ten constituencies that formed part of Labour’s ‘red wall’, which backed Brexit and dramatically turned Conservative for the first time in the 2019 election.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529067385
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	09/16/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sebastian Payne is the award-winning Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times. At the 2019 British Journalism Awards, he was awarded ‘Political Journalist of the Year’ in recognition of his work on the FT’s series ‘The Corbyn Revolution’. Sebastian presents the Payne’s Politics podcast, which was shortlisted for ‘News Podcast of the Year’ at the 2020 National Press Awards.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

Introduction - Gateshead 7

1 Blyth Valley 39

2 North West Durham 69

3 Sedgefield 99

4 Wakefield 127

5 Don Valley 157

6 Great Grimsby 189

1 North East Derbyshire 221

8 Coventry North West 253

9 Heywood and Middleton 287

10 Burnley 319

Conclusion - Hartlepool and Westminster 353

Notes 399

Acknowledgements 411

Index 414