Claire Ainsley

Political writer and practitioner

Control: how we lost it and how to take it back, by Claire Ainsley, shown beside the book's red cover

Claire Ainsley

Political writer and practitioner

Writing and broadcast

The red cover of Control by Claire Ainsley

Book

‘Control: how we lost it and how to take it back’

Published 3rd November 2026

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The cover of The New Working Class by Claire Ainsley

Book

‘The New Working Class: how to win hearts, minds and votes’

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The cover of the Build Back Belief report

PUBLICATION

‘Build Back Belief: Why Voters Around the World Lost Faith in Government and How to Win it Back’

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Podcast

‘The Good Fight Club: Why the Center Left Is Losing, the Squad vs. the Median Voter, and How Patriotism Wins Elections’

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About

Claire Ainsley is a political writer and practitioner based in the UK. After her first book, The New Working Class: How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes, was published in 2018, she joined Keir Starmer’s team as executive director of policy for the Labour Party from April 2020 to December 2022.

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