Clark Vasey

Clark Vasey is the co-founder and director of Blue Collar Conservatism.

Articles

UK Politics

Britain doesn’t need yet another left-wing party

Today, we have become used to vast swathes of the population switching long-held political allegiances, so it’s hard to imagine that there was a time when suggesting that working class voters could be tempted away from Labour was a novel idea. But that is exactly how it felt when Esther McVey and I set up […]

Economics

Being a party for the ‘workers’ does not mean shifting Left

Thirteen years ago, Esther McVey and I set up Blue Collar Conservatism. At the time the Conservatives were still more interested in chasing metropolitan liberals, a strategy which fell short of a majority in 2010. Even before Brexit we predicted a realignment of C2DE voters away from Labour and towards the Conservatives. A rightwards movement […]