Geoffrey Evans

Oct 7, 2024 | theconversation.com | Laura Hood |Geoffrey Evans |John Curtice |Paula Surridge |Tim Bale

In the first episode of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, a new podcast series from The Conversation Documentaries, we explore when the relationship between class and voting broke down and why. In 1967, legendary political scientist Peter Pulzer wrote: “Class is the basis of British party politics; all else is embellishment and detail.” His assertion reflected a long period in political history in which class identity mapped fairly neatly onto our voting habits.