Rosie Campbell

Oct 28, 2024 | theconversation.com | Laura Hood |Rosie Campbell |Vladimir Bortun

After the 2024 election, the British parliament looks very different, with a large Labour majority for the first time in more than a decade. While we don’t yet have a full analysis of the socioeconomic background of the new crop of MPs, the Sutton Trust calculated that 23% were privately educated, a record low in almost 50 years of monitoring. Several cabinet ministers come from working-class backgrounds, including the prime minister, deputy prime minister and foreign secretary.

Oct 28, 2024 | theconversation.com | Laura Hood |Rosie Campbell |Vladimir Bortun

After the 2024 election, the British parliament looks very different, with a large Labour majority for the first time in more than a decade. While we don’t yet have a full analysis of the socioeconomic background of the new crop of MPs, the Sutton Trust calculated that 23% were privately educated, a record low in almost 50 years of monitoring. Several cabinet ministers come from working-class backgrounds, including the prime minister, deputy prime minister and foreign secretary.

Jan 5, 2024 | ukandeu.ac.uk | Alex Walker |Rosie Campbell

This piece by Rosie Campbell on the relationship between gender and voting behaviour is taken from our recent report “The state of public opinion: 2023”. Read the full report here. For most of the period since World War II, women have been more likely to support the Conservative Party than men.