By: Lucy Harris

Lucy Harris is an expert political strategist and consultant working with a range of businesses and is a former Brexit Party and Conservative MEP, grassroots campaigner and Conservative government special adviser

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Did call centres cause Brexit?

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Over a generation, millions of ordinary interactions with government, utility providers, financial institutions and corporate giants became remote, standardised and procedural. Each individual change was introduced in the name of operational efficiency. But accumulated across a lifetime, they altered something more fundamental: our sense that an individual can make things happen, says Lucy Harris Did [...]
Our economy is embarrassingly slow but low growth is not an inevitability

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We can't keep being surprised when we fall into traps keeping growth down, and trying to reform it with 'pay as you go' policy making which only ever tries to tweak the edges, writes Lucy Harris.
DEBATE: Does the former Tory leadership hopeful Rory Stewart have a shot at becoming London mayor?

Does the former Tory leadership hopeful Rory Stewart have a shot at becoming London mayor? Ben Kelly, a commentator for Reaction, says YES. Rory walks on – on to London. But does he stand a chance? Of course he does. The popularity of Sadiq Khan is waning, and the Conservatives’ candidate, Shaun Bailey, is woeful. [...]

DEBATE: With the launch of his new Brexit Party, is Nigel Farage back as a serious force in politics?

April 16, 2019

With the launch of his new Brexit Party, is Nigel Farage back as a serious force in politics? Lucy Harris, director of Leavers of Britain, says YES. Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party has come out with an upbeat message and a fresh look – and that’s what many Leave voters are desperately searching for in this [...]
DEBATE: Should Theresa May push for a compromise with Labour to get her Brexit deal passed?

February 13, 2019

Should Theresa May push for a compromise with Labour to get her Brexit deal passed? Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of London First, says YES. Theresa May’s primary goal must be to avoid leaving the EU with no deal. That means that the government must stop behaving as if it has a rock-solid parliamentary majority, and [...]
DEBATE: Is HSBC’s ‘we are not an island’ advert an effective strategy?

January 10, 2019

Is HSBC’s ‘we are not an island’ advert an effective strategy? Brendon Craigie, co-founder and managing partner at Tyto PR, says YES. HSBC has denied that its adverts are explicitly Brexit-related, but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out the campaign’s underlying message. Given the social media response, this denial is probably intended to highlight that, [...]

Condé Nast UK profits slump by more than a third as sale scrapped

What drinking alcohol at football could tell us about sporting fandom

Is this Europe’s weirdest holiday? Bog swimming in Estonia

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