In the 60th episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, our Director, Dr Patrick Diamond, talks to Dr Kevin Hickson (Senior Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Liverpool) about his new edited collection, reappraising Neil Kinnock's policies, impact, and legacy, which was published by Routledge last week. Neil Kinnock: Saving the Labour Party? offers a fresh perspective on Kinnock's leadership of the Labour Party 30 years on from his defeat in the 1992 General Election, featuring first-hand accounts from 'insiders' and Kinnock himself. 

They discuss Neil Kinnock's political formation and his ideological position within the Party, his struggle with the 'Hard Left' and his relationship with New Labour as well as the enduring uncertainties about the future of the Labour Party.