Insightful on an important period of Labour’s transition from protest to power.
The Rt Hon. Lord Peter Hain

A hugely important contribution to scholarship on the Labour Party. The book offers an engaging and intellectually rigorous account of internal party management from Ed Miliband to Keir Starmer. Order and Rebellion illuminates how leadership strategies, factionalism, and organisational control evolved amid turbulence and uncertainty and concludes with a sobering warning which Keir Starmer ought to listen: pursuing power for the sake of power risks endangering the future of the Labour Party.
Eunice Goes, Professor of Politics, Richmond, the American University in London

A comprehensive, well-informed, and original analysis of Labour politics in recent years. Emmanuelle Avril and Eric Shaw, two leading scholars of British politics, have come together to offer a meticulously researched, robustly argued, highly readable, and fascinating account. There is nothing like it in print: all those wishing to understand the febrile nature of British politics post-Brexit must read it. This volume is destined to become the standard work on the organisation of Labour politics.
Mark Wickham-Jones, Professor of Political Science, University of Bristol

Emmanuelle Avril is Professor of British Politics and Society at the Sorbonne Nouvelle
Eric Shaw is Hon. Research Fellow at the University of Stirling

1 Party management and the party’s external environment
2 Labour’s managerial structures, challenges and strategies
3 ‘No matter how hard he tried, he could not break free’: Miliband, New Labour and the party’s programme
4 Miliband and organisational tensions
5 High hopes: The forward march of Corbynism
6 Party Management and the entangled fracture lines of Brexit
7 Corbyn and the crisis over antisemitism
8 Corbynism: Mission impossible
9 Labour under Starmer: Taking back control
10 Starmer and candidate selection
11 The turning away: The management of policy divisions under Starmer
Conclusions and reflections