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Progressive Britain is the platform for policymaking, political education and imaginative thinking to rebuild Labour and the nation.

Firmly rooted in the Labour Party, we are dedicated to national renewal and the intellectual revitalisation of the centre-left.

After more than a decade of Tory rule Labour and the centre-left require fundamental reconstruction.

New thinking is needed to reshape the political agenda. There is a once in a generation opportunity for the left to become the intellectual driving force for political change and reconciliation in the UK. To grasp it, we need ideas that are as bold and new as they are practical and deliverable.

For the process of renewal to be a success, we will need the active involvement of citizens and local communities; local, devolved and national politicians; policymakers, academics, businesses and trade unions.

Our mission to develop those ideas and build that coalition of support. We’re focussing on the big things that can change people’s lives in the UK, from rethinking the future economy to tackling climate change to building stronger communities and better places.

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WHO WE ARE

STAFF

Jade Albas

Communications & Programmes Officer

Jade Albas

Communications & Programmes Officer

Jade Albas is Communications and Programmes Officer at Progressive Britain. She graduated from the University of Westminster with a BA Hons in Film in 2021.

Tom Collinge

Head of Policy & Communications

Tom Collinge

Head of Policy & Communications

Tom Collinge is Head of Policy and Communications at Progressive Britain. Between 2018 and 2021 he was successively Media and Communications Manager and Policy Manager at the social sector think tank New Philanthropy Capital. Before that, Tom worked in charity PR, as a freelance journalist, and as a public affairs and events co-ordinator for The New Statesman.

Joseph Holland

Operations & Programmes Manager

Joseph Holland

Operations & Programmes Manager

Joseph Holland is Operations and Programmes Manager at Progressive Britain. A former professional football player, he is currently studying part-time for a master’s degree in economics.

Nathan Yeowell

Executive Director

Nathan Yeowell

Executive Director

Nathan Yeowell is Executive Director of Progressive Britain and was Director of Progress 2019-21. He was previously Head of Policy and External Affairs at New Philanthropy Capital, Strategic Policy Adviser at the London Borough of Sutton, and Head of the Labour Group Office at the Local Government Association. He is the Editor of Rethinking Labour’s Past (I. B. Tauris, 2022) and Co-Director of Labour to Win.

ASSOCIATES

Christabel Cooper

Christabel Cooper

Christabel Cooper is a data analyst with more than two decades experience of working across the private and public sectors, as well as providing data-led research and analysis for a number of academic and political organisations, including UK in a Changing Europe and Europe for the Many. Christabel was a Labour councillor in Hammersmith and Fulham 2018-22.

Josh Simons

Josh Simons

Josh Simons is a Research Fellow in Technology and Democracy at Harvard University, based at the Carr Centre for Human Rights and the Edmond J. Saffa Centre for Ethics. Josh was the founder of the Civic Power Fund and has also been Visiting Research Scientist in Artificial Intelligence at Facebook, US-India Technology Policy Fellow at the New America think tank, and as a Researcher at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He is the author of Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI (Princeton University Press, late 2022).

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kay Carberry

Kay Carberry

Kay Carberry is a Member of the Low Pay Commission, a Director of TU Fund Managers, sits on the boards of both Transport for London (TfL) and the People’s History Museum, and is an alternate member of the Takeover Panel. She was a founder member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and from 1988 to 2016 she was Head of the Equal Rights and then Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Kay received a CBE for services to employment relations in 2007. She is an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford.

Mary Goudie

Mary Goudie

Mary Goudie has been a Labour member of the House of Lords since 1998. She is an adviser to the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and sits on the Advisory Board of the London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace and Security, and the Management Board of Gender Action for Peace and Security. A former Brent councillor, Mary was the National Organiser for the Labour Solidarity Campaign 1981-88.

Roger Liddle

Roger Liddle

Roger Liddle has been a Labour member of the House of Lords since 2010. He was a Special Adviser to William Rodgers as Minister for Transport 1977-79, to Tony Blair on European Affairs 1997-2004, and to the European Commissioners Peter Mandelson and José Manuel Barroso 2004-07. A former Co-Chair of Policy Network and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lancaster, he has served at various times on Oxford City Council, the London Borough of Lambeth, and Cumbria County Council. He is the author of The Europe Dilemma: Britain and the Drama of EU Integration (I. B. Tauris, 2014) and Co-Editor (with Patrick Diamond) of Beyond New Labour: The Future of Social Democracy in Britain (Politico’s, 2009).

Margaret Prosser

Margaret Prosser

Margaret Prosser has been a Labour member of the House of Lords since 2004 and is Chair of the Industry and Parliament Trust. A former National Women’s Secretary, National Organiser, and Assistant General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), Margaret was National Treasurer of the Labour Party 1996-2001. She is a former Chair of the Women’s National Commission and the Women and Work Commission and Deputy Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Emily Wallace

Emily Wallace

Emily Wallace brings 25 years of consultancy and business experience working across a wide range of sectors and clients. She is a founding partner of public affairs and business transformation consultancy Inflect Partners, a former Partner of European consultancy GPLUS, Chief Executive of GK Strategy and Managing Director of Connect Communications. Emily sits on the executive of Labour Business, and is a Patron of House Magazine, Women in Westminster: The 100. Emily is a Labour activist in Lambeth and co-founder of the Lambeth Food Bank Fund.

Nathan Yeowell

Nathan Yeowell

ADVISORY PANEL

Gavin Callaghan

Gavin Callaghan

Gavin Callaghan is the Managing Director of government affairs consultancy Beartas Policy and was Leader of Basildon District Council 2017-21.

Tudor Evans

Tudor Evans

Tudor Evans was first elected to Plymouth City Council in 1988 and has been Leader of the Labour Group since 1998. He has been Leader of the Council on four separate occasions: 1998-2000, 2003-07, 2012-16, and 2018-2021.

Vaughan Gething

Vaughan Gething

Vaughan Gething has been the MS for Cardiff South and Penarth since 2011. He served as Minister for Health and Social Services 2016-21 and has been Economy Minister since 2021.

Georgia Gould

Georgia Gould

Georgia Gould was first elected to the London Borough of Camden in 2010. She has been Leader of the Council since 2017 and Chair of London Councils since 2020.

Daniel Johnson

Daniel Johnson

Daniel Johnson has been the MSP for Edinburgh Southern since 2016. He served as the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Justice 2017-19 and has been Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance since 2021.

Liz Kendall

Liz Kendall

Liz Kendall has been the MP for Leicester West since 2010. She served as Shadow Minister for Care and Older People 2011-14 and was appointed Shadow Minister for Social Care in 2020.

Pat McFadden

Pat McFadden

Pat McFadden has been the MP for Wolverhampton South East since 2005. A junior minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, he attended Cabinet as the Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills 2009-10. He was appointed Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2021.

Terry Paul

Terry Paul

Terry Paul was first elected to the London Borough of Newham in 2010 and has been the Cabinet Member for Finance and Corporate Services since 2018.

Bridget Phillipson

Bridget Phillipson

Bridget Phillipson has been the MP for Houghton and Sunderland South since 2010. First appointed to the Shadow Cabinet in 2020 as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, she became Shadow Secretary of State for Education in 2021.

Arooj Shah

Arooj Shah

Arooj Shah was first elected to Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council in 2012. She has been Leader of the Council since 2021 and is the portfolio lead for Equalities, Inclusion and Cohesion on the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting has been the MP for Ilford North since 2015. First appointed to the Shadow Cabinet in May 2021 as Shadow Secretary of State for Child Poverty, he became Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in November 2021.

Sharon Thompson

Sharon Thompson

Sharon Thompson was first elected to Birmingham City Council in 2014. She was Cabinet Member for Homes and Neighbourhoods 2018-21 and has been Cabinet Member for Vulnerable Children and Families since 2021.

WHO WE ARE

STAFF

Jade Albas

Tom Collinge

Joseph Holland

Nathan Yeowell

ASSOCIATES

Christabel Cooper

Josh Simons

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kay Carberry

Mary Goudie

Roger Liddle

Margaret Prosser

Emily Wallace

Nathan Yeowell

ADVISORY PANEL

Gavin Callaghan

Tudor Evans

Vaughan Gething

Georgia Gould

Daniel Johnson

Liz Kendall

Pat McFadden

Terry Paul

Bridget Phillipson

Arooj Shah

Wes Streeting

Sharon Thompson

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