Sean McDaniel is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the Future Economies Research Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. He completed his PhD at the University of Warwick in 2019 and has been a visiting research fellow at the Centre d'études europénnes, Sciences Po, Paris.

Introduction

1. Neoliberal convergence and the politics of austerity: is there still space for the centre-left?

2. Struggling to win: centre-left electoral decline and the strategic dilemma of the Third Way

3. Developing a strategy: the internal dynamics of the centre-left's response to the crisis of neoliberalism

4. Delivering the strategy: how the centre-left sought to communicate a response to the crisis of neoliberalism

5. Stagnation, failure and fragmentation: the rise of the radical left

6. Post-pandemic politics: how are the centre-left rebuilding?

Conclusion

Appendix: list of interviewees and interview location