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Nov 11, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
🚨 NEW FABIAN & FES REPORT 🚨

UK must learn the right 'levelling up' lessons from Germany›

1. Devolve but collaborate
2. Set long-term plans and invest
3. Grow towns, regions & cities

New report with @FES_GB BY @lukeraikes investigates:

🧵 Democracy and Human Rights ... 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell, East German productivity has overtaken the UK

the midlands, the north, Wales and NI are similar Czechia & Slovakia - not France & Germany

This is a policy failure, Germany made better decisions..

..but this view would surprise many Germans!
Apr 28, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
🚨🚨 NEW FABIAN REPORT 🚨🚨

2 million older voters who did not support Labour in 2019 would consider doing so now.

This is one of the findings of our latest report ‘A mature approach – How can Labour reconnect with older voters’

Find out more in the 🧵 below… Until recently, older voters have turned away from Labour since the party left office in 2010.

In 2019, support from over-55s reached a record breaking low