The Breakthrough Party launched in January 2021. It was founded by Alex Mays. He grew up in Brighton but now lives in Manchester. Mays was previously a chef, but in 2015 he retrained as a journalist. He now works as head of creative at a social media company. It was his retraining which…
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The Tale Of Two Conferences
On the surface, there are several very obvious reasons for the significant differences between the atmosphere at the Labour and Conservative party conferences. Labour enjoyed a massive turnaround in popularity during the general election campaign, they sprung from a 24 point polling lead (according to one poll) to a five-point lead in a…
Chatter Episode 9 – Sam Ancliff on Activate and Young Conservatives
Sam Ancliff from Activate Britain was our guest on today’s show, he has been at the centre of a huge storm of controversy and hacking over the past week since the launch of Activate. He came on the show to talk about that controversy, why he wanted to be a part of Activate,…