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Welcome to ThinkLabour, a new strategic force formerly known as Labour Together.

We are dedicated to generating the bold ideas, political strategy and public insight needed for Labour to govern confidently and win the next general election.

Rapid social, economic and technological change is upending our politics, making the task of governing more challenging and increasing the need for new, creative solutions.

So, we’ve changed to meet the challenges ahead, not the past.

Today, ThinkLabour works openly and collaboratively with Ministers, MPs, mayors and others across Labour and beyond to develop bold, innovative and radical ideas to help create a proud, strong and prosperous Britain in an uncertain world.

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Latest reports

Measuring what matters

This report from think tank Labour Together looks at what issues are most important to the public. Knowing what issues are most important to the public is the bedrock of understanding voters. Ironically, its own importance can’t go understated. This report applies some overdue methodological experimentation to the question of what matters most to voters.

Let mayors build

This report from UK think tank Labour Together looks at mass transit systems. The UK has fewer mass transit systems than other European countries. This paper, co-authored with the Centre for British Progress, argues that giving metro mayors the power to fund and approve new infrastructure could usher in a new wave of building. Tracy...

A progressive case for state reform

This report from UK think tank Labour Together looks at a new type of state with more energy and the will to get things done. In a new paper by Morgan Wild and Peter Hyman, they argue that for today’s times, a new type of state is needed. One that has more energy and will...

Pride and prosperity

This report from UK think tank Labour Together looks at why places should be integral to society. This paper, by Labour Together’s director of devolution policy, JP Spencer, makes an argument for why places should be integral to the society we want to create, restoring civic power so that we can build a stronger economy,...

The case for contribution

This report from UK think tank Labour Together looks at the ethics and expectation of contribution. This essay, by Labour Together’s chief policy adviser, Morgan Wild, argues that this Labour government should root itself in an ethic and expectation of contribution: the actions we take that make other people better off. This can be work,...

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