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Jon Cruddas has worked for and represented the Labour Party for thirty-five years and was the Member of Parliament for Dagenham and Rainham. He is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, a visiting professor at the University of Leicester and Honorary Professor at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham. He has been head of the office of the party General Secretary, Deputy Political Secretary to Prime Minister Tony Blair, a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and a member of the Shadow Cabinet. His 2021 book The Dignity of Labour explored the economics and future of work.
Britain’s first Labour government took office on 22 January 1924. Its centenary provides an opportunity to reassess the party’s performance over the last 100 years, and the character and purpose of the modern party. To do this, Jon will be drawing on his recent publication, A Century of Labour, in which he details the vivid personalities and epic factional battles, the immense achievements and profound disappointments that define a century of Labour. Uniquely framed around competing visions of socialist justice within the party, he will provide a way to rethink Labour history, the divisions and factions on the left, and to reassess key figures at the helm of the movement from Keir Hardie through to Keir Starmer.
