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Very excited to officially join the brilliant team at @LabourTogether, as Director of Research. I've been a political nerd since aged 9, and I've been a data analyst for the last 17 years. Finally the two strands come together! 1/
Christabel Cooper
@ChristabelCoops
Director of Research at @labourtogether. Interested in politics and data. Interested in how people think about politics and data.
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@LabourTogether research on housing covered in the Guardian today. The housing debate is characterised as a binary conflict between NIMBYs and YIMBYs - we show that NIMBYs opposed under nearly all circumstances to local housing - are in a minority. 1/
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www.theguardian.com Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey Pro-building Labour group hopes study will spur on major planning reform and government drive to build 1.5m homes This is an excellent and honest thread about the problems with polling at the last election and what @Moreincommon_ have done to look into the overstatement of Labour's vote. Highly recommended read.
🧵 Two months ago today, we released our final voting intention poll of the General Election.
Today we are releasing the findings of our early investigations into where we think our polls did well, and where we want to improve for next time...View quoted post on X
Women are not allowed to "talk too loudly"? I would last approximately 45 seconds under that godawful regime.
Taliban passes new lifestyle laws in Afghanistan banning Afghan women from looking at men they are not related to, talking too loudly, singing or reading the Koran in public trib.al/uHJDAENView quoted post on X
Oh good grief. I'm mixed race. I found the BLM protests inspiring - empowering me to celebrate a part of my identity I had been reticent about. It didn't impact the connection I have to my white family. Because most people can hold more than one thought in their heads at once.
Labour capitulate every time a union or trendy mob turns up with demands. But worse, they have no idea how to deal with the crisis of identity that was a big factor that lead to the riots.
l spent my career in govt fighting sectionalism and identity politics. And so will the Conservative Party if I’m elected leader. (1/2)
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