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Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics

Penguin Books, 2023, 272 pp., ISBN: 978-0141999098

Author: Pat Thane

Published in: Society

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Matthew Goodwin recognises, and seeks to explain, the change, and apparent fragmentation, of recent British politics. As he points out, it is often explained by recent events, the rise of populism and Nigel Farage, the Brexit vote, the electoral success of Boris Johnson and the collapse of Labour in 2019. But he argues that these real realignments of politics are the outcome of longer-term trends, since at least the 1980s, affecting not only Britain but much of Western Europe and the USA, disrupting old political allegiances, which he seeks to understand. …

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Footnotes
1
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2
D. Healey, The Time of My Life (London, Michael Joseph, 1989) p. 292; R. Roberts, When Britain Went Bust. The 1976 IMF Crisis (London, OMFIF, 2016).
 
3
R. Mortimore and A. Blick eds., Butler’s British Political Facts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) pp. 647–648.
 
4
J. Cribb, R. Joyce, D.Philip et.al., Living Standards, Poverty and Inequality in the UK (2021, London, Institute for Fiscal Studies) www.​ifs.​org.​uk/​tools_​and_​resources/​incomes_​in_​uk.
 
5
Eric J. Evans Thatcher and Thatcherism 3rd edition ( London, Routledge 2013) p. 118
 
6
Tony Blair, Fabian Society pamphlet, 2002.
 
8
Thomas Piketty, translated by Arnold Goldhammer, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2017).
 
Metadata
Title
Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics
Penguin Books, 2023, 272 pp., ISBN: 978-0141999098
Author
Pat Thane
Publication date
21-09-2023
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00910-4