Politics Is About Ideas, Not Brands - Richard Murphy

29th May 2024

Politics should be about ideas.

Instead, it's become about brands. With both the Labour and Conservative Parties - and some others, come to that - wanting to offer almost identical core policy agendas at this election, the branding is what seems to count now.

But as a result, big ideas - like the difference between parties representing people and wealth - have disappeared, and that is a massive loss to us all.