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Resurrecting the Party of Bryan and Ryan

January 12th, 2026 | 7 min read

By Gillis Harp

Since their 2024 presidential election loss, Democrats have understandably engaged in considerable soul-searching. In their self-examination, they would do well to look both abroad and to their past. Democrats might profit from studying the ‘Blue Labour’ movement within the British Labour party, especially how it has diagnosed the latter party’s failures. It first emerged in 2009 as an alternative to the more centrist, globalist and business friendly mainstream New Labour. Never a large group, its supporters today number only a handful of Labour MPs in Parliament. 

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Gillis Harp

Gillis Harp is the author, most recently, of Protestants and American Conservatism: A Short History (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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