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WHAT
LABOUR
IS
FOR

Releasing

October 2026

A New Foundation

for Purpose and Direction

"An engaging and arresting analysis which is both fresh and radical."

Professor Andrew Gamble FBA
Professor of Politics
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Sheffield

Labour is in crisis,
and so is the country.

The populist right is rising, and Labour needs an answer which is not mealy-mouthed managerialism. It needs a cohesive vision based on a firm understanding of purpose, direction and identity. To do that it needs to move beyond the foundations provided by the postwar consensus — whose assumptions have been found lacking, and outputs are increasingly dispised by voters.

'What Labour Is For' supplies the missing foundation: a single framework, grounded in the moral instincts that decide what people accept as legitimate, running from solidarity and the nation through welfare, housing, defence and AI. It is a route out of managerialism and a way to beat the populist right on the ground it has claimed — not with a three-point plan, but with a serious account of what Britain is for.

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"An original contribution to the defining political issue of our time."

Professor John Denham
Director, Centre for English Identity and Politics
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Southampton

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