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From the 2024 riots and Operation Raise the Colours to Reform UK’s historic surge, Britain’s “left behind” towns have become the epicentre of political discontent. This book traces how economic decline and government failure to address public concerns – particularly around immigration – have fuelled disaffection in specific localities.
Price: $97.95
Pages: 176
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date:
01 July 2027
ISBN: 9781447374374
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social mobility, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Political economy, Poverty and precarity
Luke Telford is Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Social Policy in the School for Business and Society at the University of York.
Jonathan Wistow is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, ECR Director of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing and Co-Director of the Durham Research Methods Centre at Durham University.
1. Introduction
2. An Unequal Nation
3. Loss Allocation
4. Political Disaffection
5. Left Behind and Reform UK
6. Alternative Directions