# Blue Labour ## Basic Info **Name:** Blue Labour **What is it:** A socially conservative, economically left-wing tendency within the [[UK Labour Party]]. Founded as a counter to New Labour, it emphasizes family, faith, work, reciprocity, and community solidarity over progressive universalism and market liberalism. Advocates guild socialism, corporatism, vocational education, workers on boards, regional banking, trade unionism, and immigration restriction. Explicitly anti-globalist and anti-cosmopolitan. Describes itself as "conservative socialism" — protecting human value and nature from the commodification of both capitalism and the managerial state. **Location:** London, UK **Link:** https://www.bluelabour.org/ **Who is involved:** Maurice Glasman (founder), Jon Cruddas, Jonathan Rutherford and Paul Embery. --- ## Entries ### People - **[[Maurice Glasman]]**: founder. Director of the [[Common Good Foundation]]. Author of _Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good_ (Polity, 2022). Has increasingly aligned with populist right, praising Trump's 2024 victory and attending his inauguration. Sits on [[Fix Britain]] advisory board. - **Jon Cruddas** — Labour MP, former policy review coordinator under Ed Miliband, co-launched "[Future of the Left](https://policyexchange.org.uk/the-future-of-the-left-at-policy-exchange/)" project at [[Policy Exchange]] in 2024. - **Jonathan Rutherford** — academic, co-launched "Future of the Left" with Glasman and Cruddas. - **Paul Embery** — trade unionist, author of _Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class_ (2020).