Author talk – Mark Perryman on The Starmer Symptom

Mark is the editor of The Starmer Symptom, published in August 2025:In 2024, fourteen years of Tory gross mismanagement of government, economy and society came to a crashing and well-deserved end. … Keir Starmer’s Labour government was elected with a landslide of seismic proportions. The Starmer Symptom brings together leading political writers to navigate the complex terrain of this seismic shift in British politics. This unique collection analyses voter data, and looks at the break-up of the two-party system with the rise of a populist right in Reform UK and a new independent left.Mark will be discussing the book and what’s happened since. Two days after the Makerfield by-election you will want to hear and talk about the future of Starmer and the future of Labour. We'll be using the hall at the back of the church - the entrance is on Hatton Gardens. On the door price: £5.