🎧 What’s the Future for Labour?

Episode summary: We are back for 2020 to talk about Labour’s future after Corbyn. How can the party move the argument beyond Brexit? Does the voting system help or hinder Labour’s chances of returning to power? And what to do about Scotland? Plus, we ask how much damage would be done if the next leader turns out to be the only man in the field. With Helen Thompson, Chris Brooke and Chris Bickerton. Talking Points: Electoral Reform seems to be a perennial issue for the Labour Party. - Starmer says he wants to win a majority—but it’s hard to see how. - Would electoral reform get Labour any closer to winning? - In 1987, Tony Blair pointed out that there is a real risk of collapse for centre-left parties under proportional representation systems. - We often think of alliance politics as being anti-Tory, but look at 2010: sometimes it works the other way. - First Past the Post keeps Labour in place as the only alternative government. Is England a broadly conservative country or an anti-conservative country whose electoral system…