{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6835d2c9998551779f3b542d/6835d2e2e1abc4be6b19862c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Claire Ainsley Edition","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6835d2c9998551779f3b542d/2f7d9d8f0771b10f26239869924b7473.jpg?height=200","description":"<div>Claire Ainsley is a stalwart of left-wing politics. Formerly an executive director at social change organisation the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, she is currently leading a project on the renewal of the centre-left at the Progressive Policy Institute. Her first book, <em>The New Working Class: How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes</em>, brought her to the attention of the Labour leadership. Not long after Keir Starmer’s successful leadership bid, she was invited to join him as Executive Director of Policy, a position she held for over two years.<br>\n<br>\nOn the podcast, Claire talks to Katy Balls about her journey on the left, from a Labour-supporting family to radical university politics and then to a more moderate position. They discuss the changing dynamics of the left and how to define ‘working class’, how her book came about because of the Clacton by-election, and her reflections on British politics following the election.<br>\n<br>\nProduced by Patrick Gibbons.</div>","author_name":"The Spectator"}