Sophie Stowers

Thanks so much!

👩‍⚖️🇪🇺 And giving the ECJ some jurisdiction over EU-UK relations (as implied by UK alignment on SPS rules) is the other proposal that a plurality of Britons would consider a betrayal of the EU referendum result- including 64% of Leave voters

🐟🦐 There’s always something fishy about UK-EU relations, so to speak… 45% of Britons, and 68% of Leavers, see giving EU fishers permanent access to UK waters as a 'Brexit betrayal'.

While Starmer’s 12 year limit may soften disapproval, he could still face some backlash from Eurosceptics.

ECJ oversight and fisheries could prove to be key sticking points

Labour takes action over Gaza: what took them so long? – Politics Weekly UK The government has suspended trade talks with Israel and denounced its actions in Gaza. But why are we only now seeing this kind of action and moral outrage? Plus, after Keir Starmer’s reset with the ...

I’m on this week’s @theguardian.com Politics Weekly looking at the public's view of the PM’s EU deal and discussing @moreincommonuk.bsky.social’s
polling on the UK-EU relationship.

While voters will be pretty relaxed about many measures set out in the deal…

www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...

⬇️New polling from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social in Playbook, showing just how socially isolated many Britons feel. It comes as we launch a new initiative on social cohesion, This Place Matters, with @uclpolicylab.bsky.social and Citizens UK.

Find out more here: www.moreincommon.org.uk/latest-insig...

And some calamari to be fair

Thank you Jill! Particularly for being my media agent for the last few years... :)

Thank you Rob!

Thanks Ben!

Thanks Paula, very kind!

I've had the best 4.5 years with @ukandeu.bsky.social and all the teams I've worked with during that time (@anandmenon.bsky.social was occasionally alright to work with too).

I know UKICE have got lots planned over an important year for UK-EU relations. Can't wait to see it!

Very excited to be starting a new role as Research Manager
@moreincommonuk.bsky.social

I’m joining after an amazing year for MIC and I can’t wait to be part of all the brilliant work they have coming up!

Working with Jill has taught me to be a better writer, a better editor and more about cricket than I ever hoped to know 🏏✨

In case you fancy doing some last minute pre-locals revision…

Boomer

Bad news for Labour and its attacks on Reform’s policies – they’re unlikely to work | Sophie Stowers A vote for Nigel Farage’s party is still often a protest vote, no matter how much the government tries to pin down his plans for the economy, says UK in a Changing Europe researcher Sophie Stowers

I’ve written for @theguardian.com (along with my very helpful assistant @anandmenon.bsky.social- how the tables turn) about how Labour should take on Reform UK ⬇️

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Are the wheels coming off Reform?

➡️ Reform's former comms director Gawain Towler, researcher @sophiestowers.bsky.social & The House magazine's Harriet Symonds join @alaintolhurst.bsky.social to discuss how internal rows could damage Reform's electoral chances

🎧 Listen: pod.fo/e/2b8681

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?

Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

The Lib Dems' Brexit bravado could backfire – and push the UK and EU further apart Ed Davey has urged the Government to reduce its dependence on the US and agreeing a youth mobility scheme with the EU

Have written about why the Lib Dems’ EU policy might do them more damage than good ⬇️

(Really feel like The I is guilt tripping me by putting a picture of Jennie the dog in the headline…)

inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...

🎉 IT’S HERE! 🎉

📔 Our major new report

‘The Brexit Files: from referendum to reset’

✍️ Written by leading academic experts for the fifth anniversary of the UK leaving the EU, it covers three key areas of the Brexit story 🧵

.@anandmenon.bsky.social and his team provide impartial, timely, accessible research that is invaluable to Parliamentarians, the media + general public.

That's why Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, SNP, Green, SDLP, Alliance and independent MPs and peers have all signed this letter.

I’m just trying to boost my following by getting into an online scrap with Lee 🫡

As a spoiler, I don’t think women don’t vote Reform because of their lack of experience at the Somme

Why are young women so unlikely to support Reform? Why young men seem to be drifting towards Reform has been a major talking point in recent weeks. But less attention has been paid to the role young...

Using my first skeet (? Not 100% sold on that) for classic self promo- have written for @politicshome.bsky.social on the gender divide in British politics…

UKICE's @sophiestowers.bsky.social gets a shout out on @itvpeston.bsky.social for her work on the #Peston Policy Tracker 🙌📈

📺 Watch @paulbrand.bsky.social look at how the government is performing against its own economic targets below 👇